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Sanders A with Blum D, Smith V. 1984. The widening gap: The incidence and distribution of infant mortality and low birth weight in the United States 1978-1982. Washington, DC: Food Research and Action Center, 2 v.

Annotation: This study examines the white and black infant mortality rates and low birthweight percentages for state and city infant populations and the changes in those rates over 1978-1982. It examines data from 36 states and 60 cities and urban counties for which the authors had complete infant health data for those years. Volume 1 describes results of the study and volume 2 is a literature review.

Keywords: Blacks, Infant mortality, Literature reviews, Low birthweight, Minority groups, Newborn infants, Vital statistics, Whites

National Center for Health Statistics. 1983-2003. International health data reference guide. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, biennial.

Annotation: This document provides information on the availability of selected national vital, hospital, health manpower resources, and population-based health survey statistics for forty-four nations. A profile of each survey is included, citing the title, responsible agency, objective, scope, collection method, data content, frequency and availability of data. Also included is a matrix of the data variables from the surveys. The main purpose of the guide is to provide information not readily available in published form. A secondary purpose is to support the World Health Organization's goal of developing a common basis for international data comparison.

Keywords: Directories, Health personnel, Health statistics, Hospitals, Vital statistics

U.S. Bureau of the Census. 1975. Historical statistics of the United States: Colonial times to 1970—Bicentennial edition. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2 v.

Annotation: This publication includes vital, economic, demographic, and social statistics from colonial times to 1970. The introduction discusses the origins of statistical data and how that information was provided in previous editions of this series. Chapters focus on specific topics and an index is provided in each volume. The appendix defines the contributors to the edition and there is a time period index.

Keywords: Statistical reference sources, Statistics, Vital statistics

National Center for Health Statistics. 1969. Vital statistics of the United States, 19__. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, annual.

Annotation: This statistical summary, produced annually since 1945, provides information on mortality and life expectancy for the U.S. population. It includes a brief history of the production, collection, and preparation of the tables; provides statistics by age, race, and sex; and contains explanatory text for the data found in the tables.

Keywords: Demographics, Life expectancy, Mortality, Statistics, Vital statistics

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service. 1964. Proceedings of the tenth national meeting of the public health conference on records and statistics . Washington, D.C.: , 148 pp. (PHCRS Document No. 595)

Emerson H. 1949. Selected papers of Haven Emerson Published on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, 19 October 1949. Battle Creek, MI: W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 507 pp.

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