5. Vital statics is a numerical
description of the birth, death,
abortion, marriage, divorce and
adaptation.
ACCORDING TO - U.N.O.
6. Origin:
Vital statistics begin with the study of john graunts in
England who studied the weekly bills of mortality and
discovered that urban death rate were higher than
rural and founded that the male birth are higher than
female birth.
7. Nature of vital statistics:
Vital statistic has been used to denotes acts
systematically collected and compelled in numerical
derived from the vital events.
It provides tools for measuring dynamics of change
which continuous occurs in population
9. USES/SCOPE Of Vital Statistics
To evaluate impact of various national health
programme.
To plan for better future measures of disease control.
To describe level of community health.
To diagnose community illness.
To discover solution to health problems.
To promote health legislation.
To create administrative standards.
To know the met and unmet needs.
10. Cont….
To demand public support for health work.
To compare health status of people.
To measure health status of people.
To conduct research on particular health problem.
31. Important vital statistics:
Birth rate
Death rate
Specific death rate
Infant mortality rate
Neonatal mortality rate
Post neonatal mortality rate
Still birth rate
Perinatal mortality rate
Under five mortality rate