User:Indicators20/The State Of The USA

The State Of The USA is a non profit (510(c)(3)) institution devoted to providing reliable information on public policy issues. The institution was founded in 2007 and focuses on securing the most relavent and reliable data related to the public good and making that data readily and easily availible to the public via a new website stateoftheusa.org. On this site State Of The USA will present the data using graphs, charts, blogs and other means in order to best show the data and the relavent impact that the data has on the country. The State of The USA website will offer data that can offer comparisons along gender,race,timeframe,locational,national,state and other displays allowing users to look up and compare specific crossections of the population. The ultimate goal of The State Of The USA is to be considered a premier public policy source which can present reliable pulbic policy infomration giving the public and policy makers a solid non-partisan factual foundation public policy debate. The sponsors of The State Of The USA include The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation , The John D. and Cathernine T MacArthur Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, The F.B. Heron Foundation, The Peter G. Peterson Foundation and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Leadership The Organization is run by a board of directors composed of experts from civil service, buisness non-profits, think tanks and other notable fields within the general area of public policy. The CEO of the institution is Christopher Hoeing who previous experience included working for McKinsy and Company, managing director at the GAO and Vice President of Strategy at IBM.

The State Of The USA and The Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences The State Of The USA has worked closely with The Institue of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences to develop 20 key indicators which they determined were key in showing the nations health. These indicators were life expectancy, infant mortality, life expectancy at age 65,injury related mortality, self reported health status,unhappy days physical and mental, chronic disease prevalence, serious phychological distress, smoking, physical activity, excessive drinking, nutrition, obesity, condom use, health care expenditures, insurance coverage, unmet medical, dental and perscription drug needs, preventable hospializations and childhood immunization.

Additional Sources: http://civic.mit.edu/event/lunch-the-state-of-the-usa-database-with-ceo-chris-hoenig http://www.revsonfoundation.org/programs_education.html