Publications

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Annual Studies
Annual Studies are Statistical Studies Produced Each Year by the Health Statistics Center. Examples are the Vital and the BRFSS.

• West Virginia Population, 2003 and 2004
  
• West Virginia Population, 2004 and 2005
  
• 2009 West Virginia Vital Statistics
  
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  • 2008 West Virginia Vital Statistics
  • 2007 West Virginia Vital Statistics
  • 2006 West Virginia Vital Statistics
  • 2005 West Virginia Vital Statistics
  • 2004 West Virginia Vital Statistics
  • 2003 West Virginia Vital Statistics
  • 2002 West Virginia Vital Statistics
  • 2000 West Virginia Vital Statistics
  • 1999 West Virginia Vital Statistics
  • 1998 West Virginia Vital Statistics
  • 1996 West Virginia Vital Statistics
  • Summary Public Health Statistics of West Virginia 1919-1947
• 2009–2010 West Virginia Behavioral Risk Factor Survey Report
  
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  • 2007–2008 West Virginia Behavioral Risk Factor Survey Report
  • 2006 West Virginia Behavioral Risk Factor Survey Report
  • 2004-2005 West Virginia Behavioral Risk Factor Survey Report
  • 2003 West Virginia Behavioral Risk Factor Survey Report

Briefs
Briefs are short statistical reports about a single subject of interest.

• Brief 01 Decline in Teenage 15-19 Fertility Rates 1991-2004 West Virginia and the United States
  
• Brief 02 Selected Sources of Publicly Funded Health Care Coverage In West Virginia - updated
  
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  • Brief 02 Selected Sources of Publicly Funded Health Care Coverage In West Virginia
• Brief 03 Estimated Number of Adult Cigarette Smokers and Cigarette Consumption West Virginia 1990 - 1999
  
• Brief 04 Smoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West Virginia - 1996-2005 - updated May 2007
  
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  • Brief 04 Smoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West Virginia - 1989-1998
  • Brief 04 Smoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West Virginia - 1992-2001 - Updated Feb 2003
• Brief 05 Firearm-Related Fatality Rates - West Virginia and United States 1993-1998:A Comparison
  
• Brief 06 Birth Defects Surveillance System 1990-1999 West Virginia Residents
  
• Brief 07 Infant Mortality Statistics by Race West Virginia Residents
  
• Brief 08 A Look at West Virginias Population by Decade 1950-2000.
  
• Brief 09 Cleft Palette and/or Lip Birth Defects 1990-1999 West Virginia Residents
  
• Brief 10 A Look at West Virginias Aging Population 1950-2000 West Virginia Residents
  
• Brief 11 Selected Selected Data on Firearms in West Virginia: Mortality Possession and Use in Criminal Activity
  
• Brief 12 Asthma Surveillance in the West Virginia Medicaid Population - Year 2002
  
• Brief 13 Selected Data on Suicides West Virginia and the United States
  
• Brief 14 The Burden of Arthritis in West Virginia
  
• Brief 15 Gender Differences in Life Expectancy Mortality and Health-Related Behaviors West Virginia 2003
  
• Brief 16 Asthma Among West Virginia Children 2006
  
• Brief 17 Asthma Among West Virginia Elderly
  
• Brief 18 Asthma Surveillance in the West Virginia Medicaid Population 2003
  
• Brief 19 Asthma Surveillance in the West Virginia Medicaid Population
  
• Brief 20 Asthma Surveillance in the West Virginia CHIP Population
  
• Brief 21 Racial Disparities in Cigarette Smoking Among Adults
  
• Brief 22 Asthma Hospitalizations 1996-2006
  
• Brief 23 Selected Data on Suicides by Age GroupWest Virginia and the United States
  
• Brief 25 Selected Birth Certificate Data on Late-Preterm Births West Virginia
  
• Brief 26 Cancer Prevalence and Survivorship in WV, 2010
  
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  • Brief 26 Cancer Prevalence and Survivorship in WV, 2009
• Brief 27 Asthma Surveillance in West Virginia
  
• Brief 28 Diabetes and Health Equity in WV: A Review
  

Child Fatality Review Team Briefs
The West Virginia Child Fatality Review Team was created by the West Virginia Legislature in March 1996. Its purpose is to provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary review of each child death to reduce the number of preventable child fatalities In West Virginia. WVCFRT operates under the auspices of the West Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and peroidcally releases its findings to the public.

• CFRT Brief 1 Air Bags and Unrestrained Front Seat Occupants
  
• CFRT Brief 2 Child Drownings
  
• Statement on Preventing Child Drownings in West Virginia
  

County Health Data
County and regional data on vital events health conditions and risk behaviors.

• Bureau for Employment Programs BEP County Profiles
  
• US Census Data on West Virginia
  
• West Virginia Geological and Economic Surveys County at a Glance
  
• WV Health Status Atlas
  
• West Virginia 2004 County Health Profiles
  
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  • West Virginia 2000 County Health Profiles
  • West Virginia 1997 County Health Profiles
• West Virginia Health Atlas
  

External Reports
Reports of interest compiled by various state and national agencies.

• Epi-Log
  
• Fatal Injury in West Virginia
  
• Health United States CDC
  
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report CDC
  
• National Vital Statistics Report CDC
  
• West Virginia Aging Health Status Report -January 2004
  

Healthy People

• Healthy People 2000 MIDCOURSE REVIEW
  
• West Virginia Healthy People - 2010
  

HSC Special Reports
Special one-time reports usually dealing with a single topic.

• 2005 West Virginia Adult Tobacco Survey
  
• Advocating for Chronic Disease Management and Prevention 2011
  
• Chronic Lower Respiratory Disease - A state and national problem
  
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: An Overview in West Virginia
  
• Health Risks: The Appalachian Lifestyle
  
• Minority Health inWest Virginia
  
• Older West Virginians: Health Highlights
  
• Physical Activity Among in West Virginia's Youth: A Review of the Data
  
• PREGNANCY AND DIABETES INWEST VIRGINIA
  
• Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality in West Virginia - October 2006
  
• The Burden of Arthritis in West Virginia-2006
  
• The Burden of Diabetes in West Virginia–2009
  
• THE IMPACT OFCHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASEIN WEST VIRGINIA
  
• Two Generations of Low Birth Weight: A West Virginia Study
  
• Understanding Stroke in West Virginia - April 2004
  
• West Virginia and the United States: A Comparison of Firearm-Related Mortality Rates
  
• West Virginia and the United States: A Comparison of Injury and Mortality Rates
  
• What a WV smoker spends on cigarettes in a lifetime
  
• WV Comprehensive Cancer Program Evaluation Report 2009 – 2010
  
• The Burden of Osteoporosis in West Virginia-2004
  
• 2001 Physicians Report
  
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  • 2000 Physicians Report
• 2007 The Burden of Asthma
  
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  • 2003 The Burden of Asthma in West Virginia
• West Virginia Womens Health Highlights
  
• Tobacco is Killing and Costing Us 2002-2006
  
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  • Tobacco is Killing and Costing Us 1999-2003
• WV Youth Tobacco Survey 2007 and 2009
  
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  • West Virginia Youth Tobacco Survey Report - 2005
  • West Virginia Youth Tobacco Survey - 2002
• An Overview of Dementia: The Growing Crisis in West Virginia
  
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  • Dementia: The Growing Crisis in West Virginia, 2003
• The Burden of Cardiovascular Disease in West Virginia
  
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  • The Burden of Cardiovascular Disease in West Virginia
• Obesity in West Virginia
  
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  • Obesity: Facts Figures Guidelines

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