Sept. 6, 2011 Iowa Health Fact Book 2011 profiles health and
behavior of Iowans Certain infectious and sexually transmitted
disease rates continue to be areas of concern for Iowa's public
health, according to data from the 2011 Iowa Health Fact Book.
The University of Iowa College of Public Health, in partnership
with the Iowa Department of Public Health, has released the 2011
edition of the book, a broad-ranging report covering the health
and health-related behaviors of Iowans. "With this book, we
present a tool that is useful to Iowa's health care providers,
health policymakers, public health practitioners, health
researchers and members of the media alike," said Jane
Pendergast, director of the Center for Public Health Statistics
and professor of biostatistics at the UI. "It's a 'one-stop
shop' for county- and state-wide data relating to health
outcomes, social determinants of health, health behaviors and
health care resources." The fact book assembles health data on
areas such as prenatal and infant healt