RELATION OF VITAL STATISTICS TO PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

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

[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...

Relation of Psychiatry to Public Health *

An understanding of the social fabric of a community or State is essential for the development of constructive services in public health as well as in psychiatry. The aim herein is to define public health and mental hygiene, emphasizing the key position of the private physician, to discuss interrelationships of problems and services, and to mention some objectives yet to be achieved. No problem...

The Philippine management information system for public health programs, vital statistics, mortality and notifiable diseases.

Strengthening the information support for decision making has been identified as an important first step toward improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and equitability of the health care system in the Philippines. A Philippine-German Cooperation is in partnership toward developing a need-responsive and cost-effective Health and Management Information System (HAMIS). Four information baskets a...

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...