The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has produced the 1986-2000 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Linked Mortality Files by linking eligible adults in the 1986-2000 NHIS cohorts through probabilistic record linkage to the National Death Index to obtain mortality follow-up through December 31, 2002. The resulting files contain more than 120,000 deaths and an average of 9 years ...

Methods for obtaining small area estimates which have emerged over the past decade are reviewed with particular emphasis given to synthetic estimation, a procedure originally developed at the National Center for Health Statistics which has found wide acceptance because of its simplicity and intuitive appeal, and yet has provoked much controversy because of its lack of good demonstrable statisti...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of the Health Service Research Project of the Pakistan Medical Research Council (PMRC) on mothers and infants in Budhni village, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan. METHODS Information from the PMRC records on the socioeconomic and demographic situation over the last 10 years and anthropometric measurements made on all ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the implications of adopting the World Health Organization 2006 growth standards in combination with current diagnostic criteria in emergency and non-emergency child feeding programmes. DESIGN Secondary analysis of data from three standardised nutrition surveys (n=2555) for prevalence of acute malnutrition, using weight for height z score (<-2 and <-3) and percentage of th...

Correspondence to: Ms Lois A Fingerhut, Special Assistant for Injury Epidemiology, Office of Analysis, Epidemiology and Health Promotion, US Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 6525 Belcrest Road, Room 750, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA. With this edition of Injury Prevention, we are pleased to begin the annual submission of injury mortality rates for children and tee...

introduction: the idea that factors during early critical periods of life affect on long term health is now a major public health concern. in this study, in addition to investigating obesity prevalence among female high school students in yazd, the relationship between obesity and birth weight was examined. materials and methods: this cross sectional study was conducted on 312 female high schoo...

This report describes the characteristics of the TRANSAX (for Translation of AXis) computer software developed by staff of the National Center for Health Statistics to translate multiple cause-of-death data contained on death certificates from a condition (entity) axis of classification to a person (record) axis of classification. This conversion is an essential step in the development of data ...

Summary In order to examine the Summary .growth status or children in Tehran nurseries in comparison to the international standards, height and Weight in 526 boys and 557 girls 3 to 7 year old in 7 nurseries located in the well­to-do areas of the capital were surveyed and compared to the National Center for Health Statistics figures. 54.5% or the children were between -1 SD to + 1 SD weight fo...