One of the central themes of this year’s International AIDS Conference, held in Toronto, Canada in August, was a renewed call for universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS. For Dr Peter Ghys this was all the more reason to pursue one of his main assignments at UNAIDS — improving the quality of data that measure the epidemic. Faced with discrepancies in published statistics and demands from don...

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Health statistics, including both empirical data and estimates related to health such as mortality, morbidity, risk factors, health service coverage, and health systems, are the basis for every aspect of health planning. The demand for better health statistics is rapidly growing. More money is being spent on global health than ever, and donors are keen to know their return on investment. In the...

background: timely access to cardiovascular health services is necessary to prevent heart damages. the present study examined inequality in geographical distribution of cardiovascular health services in iran.   methods: present study is a cross-sectional study conducted using demographic data from all iranian provinces (31 provinces) from 2012 census by the statistics center of iran (sci). the ...

The author argues that measuring mortality in conflict settings is fraught with limitations which mostly result in under-estimation of mortality. Some recent publications on this subject have been based upon convenient surveillance processes, or even press reports. The author calls for vigilance against such studies and argues that war related surveillance-based mortality estimates should inclu...

For more than a hundred years, the United States has operated a decentralized vital statistics system as an essential component of public health. Statistics based on births and deaths registered in the United States are a primary source of data used to track health status, to plan, implement, and evaluate health and social services, and to set health policy. The national vital statistics system...