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/

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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/

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State Health Resource Lists

State Resources - Iowa (from the Rural Assistance Center)
http://www.raconline.org/states/iowa.php

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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

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Medically Underserved Areas/Medically Underserved Populations

MUA/MUP - Medically Underserved Areas/Medically Underserved Populations
http://muafind.hrsa.gov/ (enter Iowa in the search box)

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Health Workforce Profiles

Health Resource Shortage Area Workforce Profiles
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/reports/statesummaries/iowa.htm

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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/

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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

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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

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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

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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/

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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/

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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

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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

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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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