The National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH), then the National Coding Centre, established CSAC in 1994. The main function of CSAC is to introduce new and amended International statistical classification of diseases and related health problems, tenth revision, Australian modification (ICD-10-AM) codes and Australian coding standards. In addition, CSAC: • provides advice regarding act...

We aimed to evaluate the classification of arm circumference (AC) in pre-school children by using National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS/CDC-2000) and World Health Organization (WHO-2006) references. We evaluated 205 children: weight, height and AC were assessed and the body mass index (BMI) was calculated. The BMI values were classified into Z-scores by the WHO referential. The AC was cla...

This paper will present the socioeconomic profile and nutritional status of children aged 1-6 years in the rubber smallholdings of Peninsula Malaysia. A total of 323 households were involved in this study. The sociodemographic data were obtained through interviews with heads of households using a set of questionnaires. Anthropometric measurements were taken from 506 children aged 1-6 years from...

Cross-sectional data for breastfed infants in rural Zambia were used to evaluate the effect of applying two different data sets as a reference, i.e. the WHO 12-month breastfed pooled data set and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) growth reference in terms of prevalence of malnutrition (stunting, underweight, and wasting). A total of 518 infants who were attending mother-and-child...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to compare the prevalence of overweight and obesity according to three growth curves, created by the World Health Organization (WHO/2006), by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS/1977), and by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC/2000) in children with cardiovascular risk factors. METHODS Data from 118 children and adolescents, aged between ...

Land use/cover change (LUCC) research is important for regional ecological conservation and sustainable development. There a lack of exploration long-time-series dynamics driving mechanisms at the national scale in study land Thailand. Based on Global Cover product with Fine Classification System 30m (GLC_FCS30) dataset socioeconomic statistics, we studied temporal spatial evolution characteris...

In a general classification, the economy of any country is divided into two parts of official and invisible economies. Invisible activities drop outside the scope of the law and official economy and strongly affect socioeconomic development and the formal sector of all countries.These activities which are known under various titles including the shadow economy are influenced by various factors....

Together with representatives of Canada, England, and Wales, NCHS will hold a planning workshop in early 1990 to provide a foundation and mechanism for international collaborative research on high priority health issues. The workshop will provide a forum for supporting international health statistics programs; evaluating the utility of various statistical programs; and recommending their improv...

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...