1. State and County Population 1990 and 1995, Population Distribution and Population Estimates Branches, U.S. Bureau of the Census, March 1996. Population is 1995.

2. Ibid.

3. Area Resource File as of February 1996, Office of Research and Planning, Bureau of Health Professions, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the 1996 Florida Statistical Abstract.

4. 1996 Florida Statistical Abstract, 30th edition, Susan S. Floyd, editor. Bureau of Economic and Business Research, College of Business Administration, University of Florida, 1996.

5. Mortality Data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, March 1997. (Data for 1994).

6. South Florida District 11, 1996 Health Data Sourcebook.

7. "Dade’s Efforts Keep Infant Deaths Down, Expansion of Prenatal Care Credited," Miami Herald, March 11, 1997.

8. American Hospital Association, database of the 1995 Annual Survey of Hospitals. Figures do not include long-term care units in hospitals.

9. Estimates are based on 1996 American Medical Association Master File and 1996 American Osteopathic Master File. Includes physicians in direct patient care, excluding some specialties (radiology, anesthesiology, pathology), residents and fellows.

10. The state is using its 1915(b) waivers to expand mandatory enrollment in managed care plans for its existing Medicaid population.

11. Agency for Health Care Administration, July 1996.

12. 1996 Florida Statistical Abstract.

13. Health Care Financing Administration, 1997 Adjusted Average Per Capita Cost (AAPCC) for Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 Risk Contractors, memo dated September 6, 1996.

14. Health Care Financing Administration, 1995.

15. Agency for Health Care Administration.

16. Agency for Health Care Administration, Medicaid Services.

17. Agency for Health Care Administration Report, 1996.

18. The 1996-1997 American Hospital Association Guide to the Health Care Field, 1996.

19. Ibid.

20. Harkey and Associates, data as of March 1996. This Tennessee-based company publishes information on seven southern states on a quarterly basis. Information is collected from public agencies, industry surveys and interviews.

21. 1996 Florida Statistical Abstract 30th edition.

22. Miami Herald, January 20, 1997.

23. Ginsburg, P.B., and N.J. Fasciano, eds., The Community Snapshots Project, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1996.