Iowa State Profile

Known as the Hawkeye State, Iowa was the 29th state admitted to the Union in 1846. It is bordered by two major rivers - the Missouri to the west and the Mississippi to the east. Agriculture is an mainstay of the Iowa economy. It is number one in the country for corn, soybean, egg and pork production. The state is 55,869 square miles (25th in the nation), 89% of which is farmland. The population of Iowa is approximately 3 million, 30th in the country. Its capital is Des Moines.

State Information

• Quick Facts from the Census: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/19000.html
• Healthy Iowans 2010: http://www.idph.state.ia.us/adper/healthy_iowans.asp
• Population Profiles: http://ftp2.census.gov/geo/maps/special/profile2k/IA_2K_Profile.pdf
• Congressional Map: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Redist/congress-color.pdf
• State Resources - Iowa (from the Rural Assistance Center: http://www.raconline.org/states/iowa.php

State Health Information

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Health Data and Profiles for State, Tribal, Local and Territories: http://www.cdc.gov/stltpublichealth/DataStatistics/
• Disease Trends: State and Local Health Statistics from the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/distrnds.html
• Family and Community Information Tracking System: http://facits.idph.state.ia.us/
• Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA): HRSA In Your State Fact Sheet: Iowa: http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/HIMSFactSheet.aspx?statecd=19
  • Health Center Data: State Data http://bphc.hrsa.gov/healthcenterdatastatistics/statedata/
  • Find Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) by State & County http://hpsafind.hrsa.gov/
  • National Center for Health Workforce Analysis: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/healthworkforce/ (see the link to: Index of All Health Workforce Reports)
• HealthInfoIowa: http://www.healthinfoiowa.org/
• Healthy Iowans 2010: http://www.idph.state.ia.us/adper/healthy_iowans.asp
• Iowa Department of Public Health: http://www.idph.state.ia.us/
• Iowa Department of Public Health Bureau of Health Statistics: http://www.idph.state.ia.us/apl/health_statistics.asp
• Iowa Health Fact Book: http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/FACTBOOK/
• IPHI (Iowa Public Health Information): http://www.iowapublichealth.org/
• Kaiser Family State Health Facts - Iowa http://www.statehealthfacts.org/profileglance.jsp?rgn=17
• National Center for Health Statistics - FASTATS - Iowa Health Facts: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/popup_ia.htm
• State Cancer Profiles (National Cancer Institute): http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/

State Medical or Health Professional Associations

• Alzheimer's Association - Greater Iowa Chapter: http://www.alz.org/greateriowa/
• American Lung Association of Illinois-Iowa: http://www.lungil.org/
• Iowa Board of Medicine: http://medicalboard.iowa.gov/
• Iowa Health Care Association-Iowa Center for Assisted Living: http://www.iowahealthcare.org/
• Iowa Medical Society: http://www.iowamedical.org/
• Iowa Nurses Association: http://www.iowanurses.org/
• Iowa Public Health Association http://www.iowapha.org/
• Iowa/Nebraska Primary Care Association http://www.ianepca.com/

Emergency Preparedness

• Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management: http://www.iowahomelandsecurity.org/
• Iowa Emergency Management Association: http://www.iowaema.com/

GMR State Contact:

• Jacqueline Leskovec, Outreach, Planning and Evaluation Coordinator. Email Jacqueline

Regional Advisory Council Representative

• NN/LM GMR Regional Advisory Council, 2011-2016

  Linda Walton, Iowa State Representative, linda-walton@uiowa.edu, 319-335-9871

Library Associations

• Iowa Library Association, Health Sciences Library Association

  Priya Shenoy, Chair, priya.shenoy@drake.edu, 505-271-2879

• Midwest Chapter - Medical Library Association

  Katherine Schilling, President, katschil@iupui.edu, 317-278-2372

Library Consortia

• Iowa City Health Sciences Librarians and Information Specialists

  Mindwell Egeland, mindwell-egeland@uiowa.edu, 319-384-8908

• Polk County Biomedical Consortium

  Diana Messersmith, djmessersmith@dmacc.cc.ia.us, 515-964-6573

• Quad City Area Biomedical Consortium

  Judy E. Hawk, Coordinator, jhawk@grhs.net, 319-768-4075

Union Listing Organizations

• Allen Health Systems, Barrett Library

Outreach Libraries

• University of Iowa, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences - Interlibrary Loan

Resource Libraries

• Des Moines University, Library Interlibrary Loan Department
• University of Iowa, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences - Interlibrary Loan

Iowa GMR Members

Directory of members in Iowa.