Health and Vital Statistics
Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society Series

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.

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.