Health Care Issues
Part 2: Historical Patterns of Disease in
America
Watch video:
Video (20 minutes)
Presenter: Roberta Riportella-Muller
Activity: Browse the following websites:
Kaiser
Family Foundation Health Stats
Centers for Disease Control
Cardiovascular maps
by state
Healthy
People 2000: Heart Disease and Stroke Progress Review
Atlas of Cancer
Mortality in the United States, 1950-94 [.pdf, .dbf]
Cancer prevention
and Control
Cancer
- Annual Report
National
Center for Health Statistics Highlights
State
of Wisconsin health statistics
Activity: Go to at least two of the websites
and find 5 Wisconsin-specific pieces of data related to health status.
Create a table that you can use for your county on at least one health
status variable.
Here is an example of what the table could look like. Create one that
makes sense to you.
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Heart Disease
Death Rates |
Cancer
Death Rates |
Diabetes
Death Rates |
| Age |
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| Race |
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| Sex |
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