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September 01, 2004 Contact: HRSA Press Office
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Data Are Expected Soon From New National Survey on Children's Health

A new national survey is expected to provide national and state data on the health and well-being of America's children when the first summary reports are made available to the public in early 2005.
 
Called the National Survey of Children’s Health, the new survey was funded and developed by HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.  Data were collected between January 2003 and April 2004 through telephone interviews of parents or guardians of about 2,000 children in each state and the District of Columbia.
 
The entire questionnaire, which includes inquiries as far-ranging as the nature of family interaction, characteristics of the child’s neighborhood, and health of the child’s parents or guardians, is available online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/slaits/nsch.htm.
 
“We fully expect that the new survey’s extensive battery of questions will provide a richness of information on children’s health that is not currently available from other data sources,” said Peter van Dyck, M.D., M.P.H., HRSA associate administrator for maternal and child health.  Dr. van Dyck is lead author of an article in the September 2004 edition of the Maternal and Child Health Journal that describes the survey’s development, design and procedures, dissemination and expected uses.
 
MCHB will use information collected through the survey to improve planning and evaluation of federal and state Title V programs, provide baseline estimates for setting Title V performance measures, and track progress on state and national efforts to meet Healthy People 2010 goals for improving the health of U.S. children.  MCHB administers the Title V program, which provides block grant funds that are matched by states for the purpose of improving the health of children and their families.


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