Health statistics : shaping policy and practice to improve the population's health / edited by Daniel J. Friedman, Edward L. Hunter, R. Gibson Parrish II. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xxiii, 536 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1: DEFINING HEALTH STATISTICS: CONTEXT, HISTORY, AND ORGANIZATION; PART 2: COLLECTING AND COMPILING HEALTH STATISTICS; PART 3: USING HEALTH STATISTICS; PART 4: IDENTIFYING CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING ISSUES IN HEALTH STATISTICS; PART 5: TRANSFORMING HEALTH STATISTICS THROUGH NEW CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS

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Medical statistics.
Statistics.
Data Collection--methods.
Health Surveys.

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