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Poverty and Food Insecurity


US Census Bureau

NOTE: Food-insecure households are those in which either adults or children or both were “food insecure,” meaning
that, at times, they were unable to acquire adequate food for active, healthy living for all household members because
they had insufficient money and other resources for food. Statistics for 1996–1998 and 2000 are omitted because
they are not directly comparable with those for other years.

Mental disorders in the US

*Numbers in parentheses indicate the prevalence of the disorder without any comorbidity. These rates were calculated using the NCS data for GAD and PTSD, and the ECA data for OCD. The rates were not used in calculating the any anxiety disorder and any disorder totals for the ECA and NCS columns. The unduplicated GAD and PTSD rates were added to the best estimate total for any anxiety disorder (3.3%) and any disorder (1.5%).

Diagnosis of HIV Infection


CDC

From 2005-2008, blacks/African Americans constituted the largest percentage of diagnoses of HIV infection each year. In 2008, of adults and adolescents diagnosed with HIV infection in the 37 states and 5 U.S. dependent areas with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting since at least January 2005, 50% were black/African American, 29% were white, 20% were Hispanic/Latino, 1% each were Asian and American Indian/Alaska Native and persons reporting multiple races, and less than 1% were Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander.

ADLs / IADLs and Medicare beneficiaries


www.kff.org

Nearly three in ten beneficiaries (29 percent) are limited in their ability to handle basic activities of daily living (ADLs), such as bathing and eating, with even higher shares among the nonelderly disabled population (42 percent) and those ages 85 and older (48 percent). A similar share of all beneficiaries (30 percent) are limited in their ability to do instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), such as housework, preparing meals, and using the telephone. Such limitations affect a greater share of nonelderly disabled beneficiaries (54 percent) and those ages 85 and over (43 percent).