An overview of vital statistics

Definitions, Vital Statistics and Risk Factors: an Overview

A recent systematic review suggests that the prevalence of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) (blood loss of 500 ml or more) and severe PPH (defined by authors as blood loss of 1000 ml or more) is 1.85% and 6%, respectively, of all deliveries, albeit with significant regional variations1. This chapter describes the incidence of primary PPH, the difficulties in reporting epidemiological data on primary...

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...

The Elements of Vital Statistics

Vital Statistics During the War *

The most essential commodity for the prosecution of the war was people-people to fight the war, people to produce war material, and people to whom critical material had to be diverted for the production of essential civilian goods. Thus, it was important to have current knowledge, and in many cases a future picture, of the population, its composition and distribution as well as the forces affec...