Vital Statistics and National Defense

[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...

The United States National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.

Statistics in Defense and National Security: Bioterrorism and Biosurveillance

In 1334 an epidemic struck the northeastern Chinese province of Hopei. This “Black Death” claimed up to 90% of the population, nearly five million people. The epidemic eventually reached and decimated Tartar forces that had been attacking Kaffa, a Genoese colony on the Crimean Peninsula. In 1347, the departing Tartars catapulted plagueinfested bodies into Kaffa. The Genoese quickly dumped these...

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...

Principles of Vital Statistics

rain, m.u. i aie univcrsny, ruuaueipma and London : W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd. 1923. Pp. 258. Price, 12s. 6d. net. This small volume is an essay for the practising physician and health worker rather than a text-book for the public health student. As it deals with American statistical data which are differently recorded from those of England, the book is not adapted for teaching in India or Englan...