Reengineering Vital Registration and Statistics Systems for the United States

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 ev...

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Main Author: Charles J. Rothwell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2004-10-01
Series:Preventing Chronic Disease
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Online Access:http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2004/oct/04_0074.htm