Finding and Using Health Statistics

4. Finding Health Statistics Exercises


Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)


Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) is a non-profit foundation that does research, journalism, and communications programs. It focuses on major health care issues in the United States. Its goal is to be an unbiased source of facts, information, analysis, and journalism for the general public, as well as for policy makers, the media, and the health care community.1 KFF's resources include:

  • State Health Facts has more than 800 health indicators for all 50 states, Washington, D.C., United States Territories, and other locations. Users can view maps, relative health rankings, trends, and download data on demographics, health costs, health coverage, minority health, providers and service use, and more.
  • Global Health Policy has graphics and polls on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key measures of health and socioeconomic status, divided by country.

Exercises

  1. Using Kaiser’s State Health Facts, find the diabetes death rate per 100,000 population for Massachusetts for 2021. (Hint: Select "Health Status" from the Category list. Scroll down to diabetes. Select "Total Diabetes Deaths.")


  1. The rate found for Massachusetts in Question 1 is ________________ the national death rate for diabetes.



1. "About Us." Kaiser Family Foundation, 20 Apr. 2023, https://www.kff.org/about-us/.