Public Health Statistics

Public Health Conference on Records and Statistics.

The total national health expendituref6rhealth “servicesis the result of the interac-tion of a number of complex factors. Since1973, Professional Standards Review Organiza-tions have been ckarged with.~he task ofassuring the .appropriate utilization of.hosp~-tal services for Nedicare and Medica”id participants with the dual objectives of costand quality control. ...

The physician's role in public health statistics and surveillance.

For over ten years, the Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) has sponsored the monthly submission of Health by Numbers to Medicine & Health/Rhode Island. The principal reason for this collaboration has been to offer physicians a statewide perspective of the health status of the population and the characteristics of the health care system. A second reason has been to demonstrate to physici...

Suicide--causes and prevention; statistics and public health significance.

a comparison of medical care facilities and various health statistics under pricate and public sectors

a comparison of various health statistics among sweden, the united states of america, and united kingdom reveals that the u.s. is in an inferior situation. this is traced to those acute and communicable diseases which could very easily be prevented. however medical care services require money and this money due to the nature of health care system in the u.s. has to come from the patients. while...

Public Health Public Health

Methods The number of cases of death were obtained from the 2002 and 2005 Mortality Database and population data from the Population Census 2002. Standardized sex specific rates of non-traumatic and traumatic mortality in 2002 and 2005 were calculated in relation to the European standard population. We presented population pyramid and aging index for both populations in 2002 and compared sex sp...