Vital And Health 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...

The United States National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.

Vital and Health Statistics; Series 5, No. 7 (8/93)

The 1991 International Symposium was convened from September 4 to 6, in Rockville, Maryland, as a follow-onto a 1988 symposium. The 1988 symposium focused on developing a research agenda on measuring health and health care for the elderly in a standard manner to permit valid comparisons across nations, The theme of the 1991 Symposium was “Meeting the Challenges of an Aging World.” Its purpose w...

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

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...