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Sessions by Day

Monday, August 16

  1. The 2007 National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS)
  2. The Health Data Interactive (HDI)
  3. The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS): Data Tools and Basic Programming Techniques
  4. Finding Key Resources From NCHS
  5. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES): New Information and Current Issues
  6. An Overview of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
  7. The National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS)
  8. Beginner’s Session: The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
  9. The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS): Advanced Programming Techniques
  10. What We Eat in America (WWEIA): National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Dietary Data—What to Know and How to Use It
  11. NCHS' Record Linkage Program
  12. Birth, Fetal and Infant Mortality Data from the National Vital Statistics System
  13. The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS): Using NAMCS and NHAMCS Drug Data
  14. Web Tutorial for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Environmental Chemical Data
  15. Data Access Tools from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  16. The New, Continuous National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), 2006–2008
  17. Practical Applications in Design and Analysis of Complex Sample Surveys
  18. Overview of the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Surveys (SLAITS) Data Files
  19. VitalStats—An Online Data Access Tool
  20. The National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH)
  21. Advanced Session: The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
  22. New Developments for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
  23. An Overview of the U.S. Mortality Data System From the National Vital Statistics System and a Description of the National Death Index
  24. The Research Data Center (RDC): Accessing Restricted Variables From NCHS

Tuesday, August 17

  1. Nutritional Biomarkers for Vitamin D and Folate: Informing and Monitoring the Impact of Nutrition Policies
  2. Mortality Data from Vital Statistics as a Surveillance Tool: Untapped Potential
  3. Annual Interchange Between Statistics Canada and NCHS: Eleven Years of Synergy
  4. Nursing Home Data for the 21st Century
  5. Teenage Pregnancy and Childbearing
  6. The Ambiguity of Race: Making Sense of the Melting Pot
  7. Working with Injury Data from NCHS
  8. Panel Discussion on Future Directions for the U.S. Vital Statistics System Mortality Data
  9. Annual Interchange Between Statistics Canada and NCHS: Highlights of Collaborative Successes
  10. Handling Missing Data in Complex Surveys
  11. Realizing the Potential of Electronic Health Records
  12. Development of State-Based Estimates From Survey Data

Wednesday, August 18

  1. Examining Complex Health Issues Through Data Linkage
  2. Vital Statistics for the 21st Century
  3. Health, United States: History, Uses, and Future Directions
  4. Innovative Study and Designs in Health Measures Data Collection
  5. Methodological Issues in the Assessment of Health Disparities
  6. Insurance Status, Access to Health Care, and Health Outcomes
  7. Healthy People 2020: Developing the Fourth Generation of National Health Promotion Statistics
  8. International Health Rankings: A Look Behind the Numbers
  9. Improving Data for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
  10. Why It’s Worth the Trouble: Use of Special Methods to Achieve Better Analysis of Survey Data
  11. Childhood Obesity in the United States
  12. The Coming of Age of Disability Statistics
  13. Question Evaluation, Validity, and Survey Data Quality
  14. Building Information Capacities for Enhancing Population Health and Health Care: A View from the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS)
  15. Emerging Issues in Ethics and Confidentiality
  16. Child Health
  17. Mental Health Data from NCHS
  18. National Perspectives on Emergency Department Crowding

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