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Vital Statistics Data

Vital Statistics Data. Daniela Nitcheva, PhD Division of Biostatistics PHSIS. Office of Public Health Statistics and Information Services (PHSIS). PHSIS structure: Division of Registration (of Vital Records) Division of Vital Records Division of Biostatistics (Vital Statistics)

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Vital Statistics Data

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  1. Vital Statistics Data Daniela Nitcheva, PhD Division of Biostatistics PHSIS

  2. Office of Public Health Statistics and Information Services (PHSIS) • PHSIS structure: • Division of Registration (of Vital Records) • Division of Vital Records • Division of Biostatistics (Vital Statistics) • SC Central Cancer Registry • Division of Surveillance

  3. Vital Statistics • Birth Registry • Death Registry • Infant Mortality Data • Fetal Death Reports • Induced Termination of Pregnancy Reports • Marriages and Divorces

  4. Statistics • We receive records of events in other states for residents of SC • Annual statistics representative of residents of the state/county • Provisional statistics available by request – results are subject to change

  5. Public Health Uses of Data • Vital event data is very important to public health. It can impact program areas within an agency, the community and the nation. • Vital event data can be used to justify the need for a new public health program to be established, as well as keep the program in place by showing its progress. • Vital event data can be used at the community level for public health community partners and studying possible clusters of cancer, stroke, heart disease, etc.

  6. Public Health Uses of Data • Birth data can be used at the community level for public health community partners and to study: • possible clusters of birth defects • rates of LBW babies • prematurity • relations between mother’s health and baby’s health • teen pregnancy

  7. Birth Certificate Indicators • Risk factors in pregnancy – diabetes (pre-pregnancy, gestational), hypertension • Infections during pregnancy • Method of delivery, characteristics – induction, fetal intolerance, antibiotics • Maternal morbidity – transfusion, hysterectomy • Abnormal conditions of the newborn – NICU, seizure • Congenital anomalies of the newborn

  8. Infant Mortality Data • Infant death records are linked with birth records • Allows to link cause of death to maternal and infant characteristics

  9. Death Certificate Data • Demographic information • New questions on Tobacco and Pregnancy • Cause of death • Coded according to ICD-10 (since 1999) • Up to 20 contributing causes • Leading causes of death

  10. SCAN Website • A website that allows generation of user specified tables and interactive maps of public health data. • http://scangis.dhec.sc.gov/scan/ Search for: DHEC SCAN • Types of data that you can get from SCAN: • Frequencies, percentages, rates, confidence intervals. • Tables, trend-lines, bar charts, maps

  11. Contact information and links: Daniela Nitcheva nitchedk@dhec.sc.gov 803-898-3627 • SCAN: http://scangis.dhec.sc.gov/scan/ • Publications: http://www.scdhec.gov/Health/SCPublicHealthStatisicsMaps/BiostatisticsPublications/

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