Infant, Perinatal, Maternal, and Childhood Mortality in the United States: Vital and Health Statistics Monographs, American Public Health Association, by Sam Shapiro, Edward R. Schlesinger, M.D., and Robert E.L. Nesbitt, Jr., M.D. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1968, 388 pp., $7.95

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-468
Author(s):  
Bea J. van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Childhood Mortality ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Health Statistics ◽  
American Public Health Association ◽  
Health Association

This book, one in the series of "Vital and Health Statistics Monographs" of the American Public Health Association, is a well documented study of childhood mortality in the United States up to 1964. The data, supplemented by information from special studies, are mainly derived from vital statistics of the United States and upstate New York. Some 80 tables and figures in the text and about half this number in the Appendix review mortality data in different age periods from 1935 to 1964, with emphasis on comparison of the years around 1950 with those around 1960 in relation to such variables as sex, birth weight, ethnic group, cause of death, age of mother, parity, geographic area, and socioeconomic group.

ANNUAL SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS—1963

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-145
Author(s):  
Myron E. Wegman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Present Report ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Health Statistics ◽  
Final Data ◽  
First Time

FOR A great many years there have been presented under this heading certain basic vital statistics data for the United States, drawn from the provisional report published by the National Center for Health Statistics. This year's provisional report, published July 31, 1964, as Vol. 12, No. 13, of the Monthly Vital Statistics Report, was shortly followed, through an innovation of processing final data more rapidly, by Advance Final Natality Data, Vol. 13, No. 6, September 14, 1964, and, just as this manuscript was being submitted, by Advance Final Mortality Data, Vol. 13, No. 8, November 2, 1964. Thus, for the first time, the present report may be made without the reservations relative to later correction.

Annual Summary of Vital Statistics—1980

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 755-762
Author(s):  
Myron E. Wegman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Health Statistics ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
State Information ◽  
States Data ◽  
International Data

Data for this article, as in previous reports,1 are drawn principally from the Monthly Vital Statistics Report,2-5 published by the National Center for Health Statistics. The international data come from the Demographic Yearbook6 and the quarterly Population and Vital Statistics Report,7 both published by the Statistical Office of the United Nations, which has also been kind enough to provide directly more recent data. Except for mortality data by cause and age, which are based on a 10% sample, all the United States data for 1980 are estimates by place of occurrence based upon a count of certificates received in state offices between two dates, one month apart, regardless of when the event occurred. Experience has shown that for the country as a whole the estimate is very close to the subsequent final figures. There are, however, considerable variations in a few of the states, particularly in comparing data by place of occurrence with data by place of residence. State information should be interpreted cautiously.

PUBLIC HEALTH

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-347
Author(s):  
George M. Wheatley ◽  
Stephen A. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
United States Public Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Medical Attention ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Number Of Children

IN ALL COUNTRIES for which there are vital statistics, accidents are a major cause of death and disability among children. In countries where the food supply is adequate and infectious diseases have been brought under control, accidents have become the leading cause of death in the age group 1 to 19 years. For example, in such countries as Australia, Canada, Sweden, West Germany, and the United States, more than one-third of all deaths in this age group are caused by accidents. The number of children who are injured by accidents fan exceeds the number who are killed. Although no accurate international figures are available, the Morbidity Survey conducted by the United States Public Health Service indicates that in the United States, for every child under 15 killed by accident, 1,100 children are injured severely enough to require medical attention or to be restricted in their activity for at least a day.

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