Question

Explain the purpose and the nature of the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. What is the role of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in this program?

Answer 1

Ans) Purpose: To provide information on the range of uses of the current vital statistics data and to suggest important uses on the immediate horizon.

The challenge for vital statistics staff is to maintain and improve data quality. That work includes training, educating, and querying providers about birth and death data and causes of death, and conducting active surveillance for fetal deaths and induced terminations of pregnancy.

Vital statistics comprises a number of important events in human life including birth, death, fetal death, marriage, divorce, annulment, judicial separation, adoption, legitimation, and recognition. The term “vital statistics” is also applied to individual measures of these vital events.

- The National Center for Health Statistics has a mission to provide statistics and data that can guide public policies and actions. It's goal is to improve the health of Americans. It is the United States' principal health statistics agency.