Iowa State Profile and Resources
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Known as the Hawkeye State, Iowa was the 29th state admitted to the Union in 1846. It is bordered by two major rivers - the Missouri to the west and the Mississippi to the east. Agriculture is an mainstay of the Iowa economy. It is number one in the country for corn, soybean, egg and pork production. The state is 55,869 square miles (25th in the nation), 89% of which is farmland. The population of Iowa is approximately 3 million, 30th in the country. Its capital is Des Moines. |
Iowa Network Information |
State Information
Quick Facts from the Census
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/19000.html
Healthy People 2010 Iowa
http://www.idph.state.ia.us/adper/healthy_iowans_2010.asp
Population Profiles
http://ftp2.census.gov/geo/maps/special/profile2k/IA_2K_Profile.pdf
Congressional Map
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Redist/congress-color.pdf
National Association of Counties
http://www.naco.org/
State Health Information
Iowa Department of Public Health
http://www.idph.state.ia.us/
IPHI (Iowa Public Health Information)
http://www.iowapublichealth.org/
State Health Facts Online (from the Kaiser Foundation)
http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org
(enter Iowa in the search box)
HealthInfoIowa
http://www.healthinfoiowa.org/
Healthy Iowans 2010
http://www.idph.state.ia.us/bhpl/healthy_iowans_2010.asp
Iowa Health Fact Book
http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/FACTBOOK/
Disease Trends: State and Local Health Statistics from the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/distrnds.html
Family and Community Information Tracking System
http://facits.idph.state.ia.us/
Iowa Department of Public Health Bureau of Health Statistics
http://www.idph.state.ia.us/apl/health_statistics.asp
National Center for Health Statistics - FASTATS - Iowa Health Facts
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/popup_ia.htm
The 2000 Iowa Child and Family Household Health Survey
http://ppc.uiowa.edu/health/iowachild2000/
State Health Resource Lists
State Resources - Iowa (from the Rural Assistance Center)
http://www.raconline.org/states/iowa.php
Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA)
Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA's)
http://hpsafind.hrsa.gov/
(enter Iowa in the search box)
HPSA Designation Criteria
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/shortage/hpsacrit.htm
Health Professional Shortage Areas, an Iowa Department of Public Health site
http://www.idph.state.ia.us/hpcdp/health_professional_shortage_areas.asp
Medically Underserved Areas/Medically Underserved Populations
MUA/MUP - Medically Underserved Areas/Medically Underserved Populations
http://muafind.hrsa.gov/
(enter Iowa in the search box)
Health Workforce Profiles
Health Resource Shortage Area Workforce Profiles
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/reports/statesummaries/iowa.htm
Specific Populations - General Information
Office of Minority Health (OMH)
http://www.omhrc.gov/
Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/
MedlinePlus® Population Group Topics
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/populationgroups.html
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Status
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/fs020514b.htm
Iowa/Nebraska Primary Care Association
http://www.ianepca.com/
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (National Institutes of Health)
http://ncmhd.nih.gov/
Office of Multicultural Health
http://www.idph.state.ia.us/hpcdp/multicultural_health.asp
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Health and Health Care Use of Children in Iowa, generated from the Iowa Child
and Family Household Survey
http://ppc.uiowa.edu/health/iowachild2000/minority/statewide.html
REACH 2010 from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
http://www.cdc.gov/reach/
African American
African American Health, a MedlinePlus topic sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/africanamericanhealth.html
African American Health Disparities Information
http://www.lib.wayne.edu/shiffman/aah/
Additional GMR Resources
Hispanic American
Hispanic American Health, a MedlinePlus topic sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hispanicamericanhealth.html
HispanicHealth.org
http://www.hispanichealth.org/
Latino/Hispanic Health (LasCulturas.com)
http://www.lasculturas.com/lib/libHealth.php
Iowa Division of Latino Affairs
http://www.state.ia.us/government/dhr/la/Index.html
Additional GMR Resources
Native American
Native American Health, a MedlinePlus topic sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/nativeamericanhealth.html
Indian Health Service (IHS)
http://www.ihs.gov/
IHS Publications & Reports
http://www.ihs.gov/PublicInfo/Publications/Index.asp
Native Health Research Database
http://www.ihs.gov/NonMedicalPrograms/IHS_Stats/Statistical_Databases.asp
Iowa Indian Tribes
http://www.500nations.com/Iowa_Tribes.asp
Additional GMR Resources
Low Income
Healthy and Well Kids in Iowa (hawk-i)
http://www.hawk-i.org/
Iowa Community Action Association
http://www.iowacommunityaction.com/
Iowa Food Insecurity, provided by Iowa State University
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/hunger/
Persons with Disabilities
Center for Disabilities and Development, University of Iowa HealthCare system
http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/cdd/
Disabilities, a MedlinePlus health topic page
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/disabilities.html
Healthy Iowans 2010 Chapter 4: Disabilities
http://www.idph.state.ia.us/bhpl/healthy_iowans_2010_chapters/disabilities.pdf
Iowa COMPASS
http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/iowacompass/
Olmstead, from Iowa's Olmstead Real Choices Consumer Task Force
http://www.olmsteadrealchoicesia.org/
Rural Populations
Bureau of Health Care Access
http://www.idph.state.ia.us/hpcdp/health_care_access.asp
Rural Assistance Center
http://www.raconline.org/
Rural Health Concerns, a MedlinePlus health topic page
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ruralhealthconcerns.html
Rural Information Center: Health Resources (USDA)
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ruralres/health.htm
Seniors
Iowa Department of Elder Affairs
http://www.state.ia.us/elderaffairs/
NIH Senior Health
http://nihseniorhealth.gov/
Seniors' Health, a MedlinePlus topic sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/seniorshealth.html
University of Iowa Center on Aging
http://www.uiowa.edu/~centrage/index.shtml
Government Information Resources
FedStats -
A gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. federal agencies
http://www.fedstats.gov/
USA.gov -
The official U.S. gateway to all government information
http://www.usa.gov/
Google Search: Uncle Sam
http://www.google.com/unclesam
State & Local Government on the Net
http://www.statelocalgov.net/
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