Responses to Recent Health Policy Data Requests
As the Nation’s principal health statistics agency, the National Center for Health Statistics compiles statistical information that is often used to help guide actions and policies to improve the Nation’s health. In carrying out our responsibility to share fully our data and analyses, we are making available summaries of staff responses to recent requests for data on health, determinants of health, health care access and use, and other topics of current interest.
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Data Releases
- Number, crude and age-adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxycodone and oxymorphone, by Health and Human Services Region: United States, 2018-2022 [PDF – 256 KB] (4/2024)
- Number of births with natality data completeness as a percentage of provisional monthly count: United States, each state, and Puerto Rico, January-December 2021 final, January-December 2022 provisional, and January-July 2023 provisional, and percent change in births 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 [PDF – 264 KB] (9/2023)
- Number, crude and age-adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxycodone and oxymorphone, by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services region: 2019-2021 [PDF – 171 KB] (4/2023)
- Provisional number of deaths among pregnant females, by underlying cause of death — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2021 [PDF – 77 KB] (10/2022)