VITAL STATISTICS for Children

1. VITAL STATISTICS IN
PEDIATRICS
PRESENTED BY:
M.C.KNIRANDA
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
SSNSR, SU.

2. VITAL STATISTICS
•Vital statistics are conventionally numerical records of
marriage, birth, sickness, and death by which the
health and growth of community may be studied.

3. 1) To evaluate the impact of various National Health Programmes.
2) To plan for better future measures of disease control.
3) To plan and evaluate economic and social development.
4) It is a primary tool in research activities.
5) To determine the health status of an individual.
6) To compare the health status of individual of one nation with
others.
USES OF VITAL STATISTICS

4. 1) Civil Registration System
It is defined as the continuous permanent and compulsory
recording of the occurrence of vital events like live births,
deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, divorces, adoption etc.
SOURCES OF VITAL STATISTICS

5. 2) National Sample Survey
• The data collected from the census are not very reliable and available
only once in 10 years.
• In absence of reliable data from the civil registration system (CRS),
the need for reliable statistics at national and state levels is being met
through sample survey from time to time.
SOURCES OF VITAL STATISTICS

6. 3) The Sample Registration System
• It is a large scale demographic sample survey which is being conducted in
a random sample of villages and urban blocks and is based on the idea
that with an adequate machinery for recording of births and deaths as
they occur and with proper supervision at all levels, it is possible to obtain
reliable estimates of vital rates at the State and National level.
SOURCES OF VITAL STATISTICS

7. 4) Health surveys
A few important source of demographic data have emerged.
These are National Family Health Surveys(NFHS) and the District levels
Household Surveys (DHS) conducted for evaluation of Reproductive and
Child Health Programmes.
SOURCES OF VITAL STATISTICS

8. IMPORTANT VITAL STATISTICS
IN PEDIATRICS

9. STATUS OF IMR AND MMR In INDIA
(as per Ministry of Health and Family
welfare)
• https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1796436