Health services in Shanghai County; vital statistics.

County Health Services

a pity that certain inaccuracies are here printed, which will be undetected by any but those who are experts in this branch of social service and which may give a misleading impression. We refer particularly to the paragraph dealing with the need for more special schools and classes where the term " backward" is used in place of " feebleminded " and where it is not made clear that the failure t...

[National committees of vital and health statistics].

NCVHS is your advisory committee on health data, statistics, privacy, and national health information policy. NCVHS advises the Secretary on the adoption of standards, unique identifiers and code sets under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), as well as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010, which calls for NCVHS to assist in the achie...

Vital Statistics and Public Health Work in the Tropics Including Supplement on the Genealogy of Vital Statistics

Vital statistics of the county of London in the years 1901 to 1951.

Interpretation of Vital Statistics

The field of vital statistics is as open to investigation, analysis and experimentation as it was three hundred years ago when John Graunt (1620 -1674) introduced the observations on the London Bills of Mortality. The research possibilities are sometimes overlooked by statisticians and demographers because the registration systems now established in developed countries seem routinized and steri...