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Activity Number: 179
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, July 30, 2007 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Health Policy Statistics
Abstract - #307907
Title: The National Health Interview Survey in the Present and in the Future
Author(s): Jane F. Gentleman*+
Companies: National Center for Health Statistics
Address: 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD, 20782,
Keywords: National Health Interview Survey ; 50th anniversary of the NHIS
Abstract:

The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), conducted for 50 years by the National Center for Health Statistics, is a multi-purpose health survey of the civilian, noninstitutionalized household population of the U.S. Its stable core and annually-changing supplementary specialized questions provide rich multivariate data for numerous types of users. Core topics include health status, limitation of activities, health care access and utilization, health insurance coverage, socio-demographic information, and income. Supplement sponsors have included the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, numerous Institutes from the National Institutes of Health, and various other government agencies. This talk will describe the rich multivariate NHIS data, the analytic products produced from those data, the annual NHIS supplements, and expectations and hopes for the future of the NHIS.

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