HEALTH, UNITED STATES, 2015 REPORT ISSUED

Health, United States, 2015 is the 39th report on the health status of the nation and is submitted by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to the President and the Congress.  It presents an annual overview of national trends that assess the nation’s health using selected measures of morbidity, mortality, health care utilization/access, health risk factors, prevention, health insurance, and personal health care expenditures. This year’s report includes a Special Feature on racial and ethnic health disparities.

The report can be accessed at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus15.pdf.