Demographics and Related Health Status or Needs of a County

You will write a 10-pg paper about the demographics and related health status or needs of a county. Include the following information in your paper:

1. Location of your geographic area (include map).
2. Describe the demographic characteristics of the area’s population (e.g. age, sex, race/ethnicity, ancestry information, language spoken at home, citizenship, ability to speak English), income, employment status, and disability.
3. Compare your area’s demographics to that of the state where the county is located.
4. Based on the information you find, discuss probable health status issues, health care use or needs of the community (This should be just 1-2 pages and can be based on what you have read in Pol and Thomas and other readings. You do not need to research this.)

Your paper should include tables and figures from health and demographic data sources.

Below are resources you can use:

• Home page of the U.S. Census BureauLinks to an external site.
• Census on-line databaseLinks to an external site.
• National Library of Medicine’s on-line databases including Medline and PoplineLinks to an external site.
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services AdministrationLinks to an external site.
• CDC home pageLinks to an external site.
• National Center for Health StatisticsLinks to an external site.
• National Institutes of HealthLinks to an external site.
• Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy-some county level data regarding birth and death statisticsLinks to an external site.
• Immigration dataLinks to an external site.
• Database of books, bibliographics, and journal articles about population topicsLinks to an external site.
• Govt. Information Sharing Project Oregon State University
  • Oregon State University’s Government Information Sharing ProjectLinks to an external site.
  • Where to find the government information included in GovStatsLinks to an external site.
• Florida state dataLinks to an external site.
• Florida hospital discharge dataLinks to an external site.
• Florida Department of HealthLinks to an external site.
• Univ. of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business ResearchLinks to an external site.
• Population Reference Bureau home pageLinks to an external site.
• Social Science Data Analysis Network-wealth of linksLinks to an external site.
• Demography virtual libraryLinks to an external site.
• World Health Organization home pageLinks to an external site.
• Wealth of demographic statistics and linksLinks to an external site.
• United Nations Development ProgrammeLinks to an external site.
• United Nations Population FundLinks to an external site.
• Census Bureau’s international databaseLinks to an external site.