Data are also available for Medical Malpractice payments.
+ State Government Tax Collections, 2006
+ Unemployment Rate (Seasonally Adjusted), 2007 Compared to 2006
+ Number of Occupational Fatalities, 2005
+ Prescription Drugs, 2006
Data on total retail Rx drugs, total sales for retail Rx drugs, retail Rx drugs per capita and retail Rx drugs by age and gender.
+ State Sex and STD/HIV Education Policy, as of August 1,2007
+ Aged SSI Beneficiaries
+ SSI Beneficiaries with Disabilities
+ Total SSI Beneficiaries
+ Emergency Room Requirements to Offer/Provide Sexual Assault Survivors with Emergency Contraception, as of August 1, 2007
+ State Mandated Benefits: Contraceptives, as of August 1, 2007
+ States That Allow Institutions to Refuse Women's Health Services, as of August 1, 2007
+ States That Allow Individual Providers to Refuse Women's Health Services,
+ State Later-Term Abortion Policies, as of
August 1, 2007
+ State Bans on "Partial Birth" Abortion as of August 1, 2007
+ State Funding of Abortions Under Medicaid, as of August 1, 2007
+ Cervical Cancer Deaths Rate per 100,000 Women, 2004
+ State Mandated Benefits: Depression Parity, 2004
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+ Health Expenditures by State of Residence, 2004
Data on total health spending, health spending by service, average annual percent growth, health spending per capita, health spending per capita by service and average annual percent growth per capita.
+ Live Births by Hispanic Origin of Mother, 2004
+ Number of HMOs, July 2006
Data on Total HMO Enrollment and State HMO Penetration Rate are also available.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
