As the debate over the health care crisis continues, state policymakers can turn once again to the Databook for an up-to-date, comprehensive picture of the health system at the state level. The third edition of this invaluable sourcebook provides data on the insurance coverage of different groups; the characteristics of the uninsured; Medicaid enrollees and expenditures; health status; health care costs, access, and utilization; and state-specific demographics and economic profiles. It also reports totals for the United States and averages for the nine Census regions. Each section has a short introduction discussing the measures included and highlighting particularly significant results.

... Gives data for each state on number of nursing homes, intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded, adult day care and other types of residential care facilities, average occupancy rate, number of beds, number of certificate of need programs, licensed home health care agencies, etc.; also gives information on payment methods, capital costs and reimbursement rates ...

In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults age 15 and above in over 140 economies, The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution includes updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services. It has additional data on the use of financial technology (or fintech), including the use of mobile phones and the Internet to conduct financial transactions. The data reveal opportunities to expand access to financial services among people who do not have an account—the unbanked—as well as to promote greater use of digital financial services among those who do have an account. The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to being widely cited by scholars and development practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The database, the full text of the report, and the underlying country-level data for all figures—along with the questionnaire, the survey methodology, and other relevant materials—are available at www.worldbank.org/globalfindex.

"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.