Data Briefs

This web page contains a selection of short Data Briefs written by the Data Resource Center. These serve as introductions or overviews to data topics and are good resources to distribute among colleagues and at conferences.

NSCH and NS-CSHCN Measures Pertaining to Healthy People 2020 Objectives (New Release)
This six page document outlines which survey measures pertain to the US Department of Health & Human Services' Healthy People 2020 Goals, including which goals use either of the national surveys as their official data source.

2009/10 NS-CSHCN: Exploring Functional Difficulties among CSHCN (New Release)
Overview of the 14 functional difficulties asked about in the survey among CSHCN, using data from the 2009/10 NS-CSHCN.

2009/10 NS-CSHCN: Comorbidity of Conditions and Difficulties among CSHCN (New Release)
Overview of the overlap between the 14 functional difficulties and the 20 specific conditions asked about in the survey among CSHCN, using data from the 2009/10 NS-CSHCN.

System of Care for CSHCN (New Release)
Overview of systems of care for children with special health care needs as measured by the federal Maternal & Child Health Bureau's Six Core Outcomes for CSHCN. The overall summary highlights data from the 2009/10 NS-CSHCN and describes CSHCN who are served by systems that meet all age-relevant core outcomes. Below are overviews of each core outcome and how they can help promote healthy development for CSHCN over the Life Course.

• Outcome #1: Families are partners in decision making at all levels
• Outcome #2: Coordinated, ongoing, comprehensive care within a medical home
• Outcome #3: Adequate insurance to cover needed services
• Outcome #4: Early and continuous screening for special health care needs
• Outcome #5: Community-based service systems are organized for ease of use
• Outcome #6: CSHCN youth receive services needed for transition to adulthood

National Parent Profile
Data brief about parent and family characteristics as captured in the 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health.

Quality Improvement Partnerships
See how the DRC can help with quality improvement processes such as understanding your population, assessing system performance, examining improvement opportunities, selecting priorities, setting targets, identifying promising improvement models and monitoring progress.
View your state's data snapshot on 2007 NSCH Child Health and System Performance

Title V Needs Assessment
Learn how the DRC can help Title V Needs Assessment processes such as assessing needs, examining capacity, selecting priorities, setting targets, identifying activities and monitoring progress.  This document also contains information about state priorities relating to Title V Needs Assessment and relevant data on the DRC website, NSCH and NS-CSHCN.  View Title V Needs Assessment data.

Who are CSHCN?
A two page overview of CSHCN including demographics, conditions and difficulties, health care utilization, school and home characteristics and how they are identified.

Prevalence of Specific Functional Difficulties among CSHCN with Each Condition (New Release)
Details the prevalence of each of the 14 difficulties asked about in the 2009/10 NS-CSHCN among CSHCN with each of the 20 conditions asked about in the same survey.

Family to Family Profiles
State-specific data highlights about how the medical needs of CSHCN impact families with customizable space to tell your own story!

Local Uses of State Data and How to Construct a Synthetic Estimate
An overview of ways state-level data can be applied at the local level and step-by-step guide on how to estimate county-level prevalence using state-level data and county-level demographical information.

Related Resources

• Browse the Data by a specific survey or topic area if you already know what you’re looking for or got the overview you need from these data briefs
• See Data Snapshots for more in-depth data points on select topics
• Browse Examples of Data Use for data briefs, reports, and stories using DRC data, created by our users and other MCH organizations
• See Chartbooks for full-length reports on the surveys (sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau) as well as many chartbooks that feature select data points from the NSCH or NS-CSHCN that were produced by other MCH organizations