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RESEARCH AND
STATISTICS RESOURCES
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Healthy Youth!
School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS)
The SHPPS
is the largest, most comprehensive assessment of school health policies
and programs ever undertaken. The study was conducted nationwide at the
state, district, school, and classroom levels. Sponsored by the CDC, the
data collected will help improve school health policies and programs.
The SHPPS was conducted in 1994 and 2000, and data collection for the
2006 study began in January, 2006. The study assessed the
characteristics of eight components of school health programs at the
elementary, middle/junior, and senior high school levels: health
education, physical education, health services, mental health and social
services, school policy and environment, food service, faculty and staff
health promotion, and family and community involvement.
 Centers
for Disease Control (CDC)
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Child Health
This “Fast Stats” site provides quick access to statistics on topics of
public health importance for children and is organized alphabetically.
The Federal Interagency Forum on Child
and Family Statistics (FORUM)
Childstats.gov
Forum on Child and Family Statistics
America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2007
The FORUM
is a collection of 22 federal government agencies involved in research
and activities related to children and families.
America's Children: Key National
Indicators of Well-Being, 2007 is a compendium of indicators
illustrative of both the promises and the difficulties confronting the
nation’s youth. The report presents 38 key indicators on important
aspects of children's lives. These indicators are easily understood by
broad audiences, objectively based on substantial research, balanced so
that no single area of children's lives dominates the report, measured
regularly so that they can be updated to show trends over time, and
representative of large segments of the population rather than one
particular group. This section presents childhood obesity rates, which
is just one indicator out of several important determinants of child
health.
 The Health Resources and
Services AdministrationMaternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB)
Child
Health USA 2005
MCHB provides
Child Health USA
2005,
the 16th annual report on the health status and service needs of
America’s children, as a means to assess the progress toward achieving
equal access to quality health.
U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
Centers for Disease Control
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The National Children’s Study
Reaffirming federal government’s commitment to the health and well-being
of children, the nation’s top experts on child health and the
environment have undertaken a study in a collaborative effort to
challenge individuals, communities, and professions to ensure that
health and long life are enjoyed by the entire population.
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