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This book aims to provide a comprehensive guide to users of mortality statistics and various sources of morbidity statistics (on abortion, cancer registration, congenital malformation notification, hospital in-patients, morbidity treated in general practice, notification of infectious disease, sickness absence and indicators of morbidity from surveys). These are dealt with in the nine chapters that follow. The final chapter then considers some multi-topic issues, and the appropriate balance between routine data collection and use of surveys. This span does not cover statistics on (1) staffing, (2) facilities (hospital beds, clinics, major equipment inventories) or (3) costs of health care. These are very different sets of statistics, generally of interest to a different group from those concerned with studying mortality or morbidity; they are therefore considered inappropriate to include in the present work.
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1.11 Bibliography 1.11.1 Vital Statistics—General Method
UN (1954, 1973); WHO (1977a)
1.11.2 Confidentiality
Crombie (1973); DHSS (1984); European Science Foundation (1980); Eurostat (1986); Feistal (1973); Flaherty (1978, 1979); Gordis et al. (1977); Greenberger (1971); Hewitt (1979); Hoffman (1980); Horton (1977); Kenny (1982); Korner Confidentiality Working Group (1985); Knox (1975, 1984); Law Commission (1974, 1981); Law Reform Commission of Australia (1979); Lindop (1978); Norback (1981); OPCS (1971a); Rule (1973); Rule et al. (1980); Siegler (1982); Smith (1979); Young (1978); Younger (1972—Appendix C: general aspects, law, computers and data banks; Appendix I: present law on protection of privacy in Great Britain; Appendix J: overseas law on privacy); Data Protection Act, 1984
1.11.3 Population Estimates—Censuses
Doyle (1980); OPCS and GRO ([Scotland] 1977, [Great Britain] 1801–1966); Redfern (1981: Australia, Canada, France, England and Wales, USA); Siegel and Jones (1980); UN (1980); UN Statistical Commission and ECE (1978)
1.11.4 Population Estimates—in Absence of Census
UN (1967, 1983a)
1.11.5 Classification
Dorn (1964)
1.11.6 Statistical Method
Decoufle et al (1980); Wong and Decoufle (1982; PMR and SMR)
1.11.7 Projection
Alderson and Ashwood (1986); Jardel et al (1986); UN (1956); WHO European Regional Office (1986)
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Alderson, M. (1988). Introduction. In: Mortality, Morbidity and Health Statistics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09068-6_1
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