Originally published in 1968, this book was intended to help those in health and welfare services as well as those whose policy decisions are influenced by the movement of statistical indices of health, to understand the purpose, derivation and meaning of these indices. It teaches by presenting statistical problems as they are encountered in practice against the background of day-to-day administrative procedures to which they relate. Special attention is paid to practices in the USA and to considerations of international comparability.
Originally published in 1968, this book was intended to help those in health and welfare services as well as those whose policy decisions are influenced by the movement of statistical indices of health, to understand the purpose, derivation and meaning of these indices.
1. Introduction
2. Population
3. Registration of Births, Deaths and
Marriages
4. Fertility Measures and Trends
5. Mortality Death Rates and
Causes
6. Mortality Indices: Life Tables
7. Environmental Factors Affecting
Mortality
8. The Measurement of Morbidity
9. Statistics of Infectious
Diseases
10. Tuberculosis
11. Maternity and Child Welfare
12. Statistics of
the Health of School Children
13. Other Public Health Statistics
14.
Industrial and General Incapacity
15. Hospital Statistics
16. Cancer
Statistics
17. Mental Health Statistics
18. General Practitioner Statistics
19. Field Studies.
Bernard Benjamin was Director of Statistics at the Ministry of Health.
