Vital statistics are the information maintained by a
government, recording the
birth and
death of individuals within that government's
jurisdiction. These data are used by
public health programs to evaluate how effective are their programs and are the cornerstone to public health systems today.
A useful by-product of birth and death registration are official certificates of those events. These certificates serve as
prima facie evidence of that event.
The agency responsible for overseeing this system in the United States is the
National Center for Health Statistics, a division of
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In slang it can also refer to bust-waist-hip measurement (
BWH)
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government is a body that has the power to make and the authority to enforce rules and laws within a civil, corporate, religious, academic, or other organization or group.[1]
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Childbirth (also called labour, birth, partus or parturition) is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the delivery of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus.
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Death is the permanent end of the life of a biological organism. Death may refer to the end of life as either an event or condition.[1] Many factors can cause or contribute to an organism's death, including predation, disease, habitat destruction, senescence,
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jurisdiction (from the Latin ius, iuris meaning "law" and dicere meaning "to speak") is the practical authority granted to a formally constituted legal body or to a political leader to deal with and make pronouncements on legal matters and, by implication, to
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Public health is concerned with threats to the overall health of a community based on population health analysis. Health is defined and promoted differently by many organizations.
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Prima facie is a Latin expression meaning "on its first appearance", or "by first instance". It is used in modern legal English to signify that on first examination, a matter appears to be self-evident from the facts.
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National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
NCHS is the United States' principal health statistics agency.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services based in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia adjacent to the campus of Emory University and east of the city of Atlanta.
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BWH is an abbreviation of bust/waist/hip measurement. It is a common method of specifying body proportions for the purpose of fitting clothes.
It is also often used in women's personal ads or Internet profiles to indicate their appearance.
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