background: in recent years use of family physicians has been determined as a start point of health system reform to achieve more productive health services. in this study we aimed to assess the cost-efficiency of the implementation of this plan in fars province, southern iran. methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was done in 2007 in 18 provincial health centers as well as 224 rural ...

We have conducted visual analysis using Health Nutirition and Population Statistics data set found on The World Bank web page. The data set provides key health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from more than 100 countries and more than 255 data items, covering from 1960 to 2009. Among all the data, we decided to look into relationship between countries’ health expenditure with vari...

Sound statistics are a key component of evidence. However, many institutional, political, and practical barriers impede effective use of data to inform policy. In the fourth paper in this Series on health statistics, we look at the relation between health statistics and policymaking at country and global levels. We propose a fourfold framework to help the transition from data to policy. Good pr...

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Descriptive statistics is the process of summarizing gathered raw data from a research and creating useful statistics, which help the better understanding of data. According to the types of variables, which consist of qualitative and quantitative variables, some descriptive statistics have been introduced. Frequency percentage is used in qualitative data, and mean, median, mode, standard deviat...

Federally sponsored health surveys are a critical source of information on public health in the United States. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is the nation's principal health statistics agency and is responsible for collecting accurate, relevant, and timely data. NCHS conducts several population-based national surveys as well as collecting vital statistics data, which are used...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the levels of primary health care services for children and their changes in Zhejiang Province, China from 1998 to 2011. METHODS The data were drawn from Zhejiang maternal and child health statistics collected under the supervision of the Health Bureau of Zhejiang Province. Primary health care coverage, hospital deliveries, low birth weight, postnatal visits, breastfe...

This feature presents highlights from statistics on health care utilization, prices, expenses, employment, and work hours, as well as on national economic activity, with brief analysis of these economic indicators. These statistics provide an early indication of changes occurring in the health care sector and within the general economy. Although most statistics include data for the second quart...

The order of author affiliations is listed incorrectly. Division of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China should appear first. The correct list of affiliations is below. Tao He, Jian Sa, Ping-Shou Zhong, Yuehua Cui, * 1 Division of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China 2 Department ...