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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Vital statistics"”.
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Accuracy In Reporting Of Kentucky Certified Nurse-Midwives As Attendants In Birth Registration Data
… to the number recorded by the Kentucky office of vital statistics and to look at the process used by birth registrars to complete the birth certificate.</p> <p>Methods: CNMs (96%) attending births in hospitals in Kentucky in 2017 kept birth logs. These logs were compared to the 2017 Vital …
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Identifying Risk Factors Related to Premature Birth Through Binary Logistic and Proportional Odds Ordinal Logistic Regression
… Center for Disease Control and Prevention's 2014 Vital Statistics Natality Birth Data containing nearly 4 million live births within the United States. Odds ratios and confidence intervals on risk factors were produced utilizing binary logistic regression.</p>
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Documenting and explaining birthweight trends in the United States, 1989-2007
… to the lower end. This dissertation uses US vital statistics data from 1989 to 2007 to document recent birthweight trends in the US and examines the possible causes behind the trends. Results are reported for all births and by race/ethnicity/nativity. Descriptive analysis suggests that the …
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Assessment of the IGME methods of estimating infant mortality rate and neonatal mortality rate from under-five mortality rate in countries affected by HIV
… empirical results computed from survey data and vital statistics data corrected for the level of incompleteness for the countries included in the study. In addition, relevant literature is reviewed in order to determine the reasonableness and impact (on the results produced) of the assumptions …
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Vehicular accident occurrence analysis and prediction
… for 11.9% of all deaths by injury, the National Vital Statistics Report and Center for Health Statistics report. Accidents represent a massive cost in economics with 12.5 million in damages within 2018 from statistics from National Safety Council. These statistics indicate need for thorough …
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Improving the Timeliness, Accuracy, and Completeness of Mortality Reporting Using FHIR Apps and Machine Learning
… diseases such as flu, and to determine vital statistics such as life expectancy, mortality trends, etc. However, accurate collection and aggregation of high-quality mortality data remains an ongoing challenge due to issues such as the average low frequency with which physicians perform …
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Trends in Fertility in Kentucky Counties: Social and Structural Components
… the United States Census Bureau and Kentucky Vital Statistics data to examine changes in fertility in Kentucky counties from 1970 to 1990 and to test whether fertility rates (GFR and children ever born) for the years 1970, 1980, and 1990 varied according to the stratification variables. It was …
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Access and accessibility to Canadian vital event records
The transfer of copies of vital event records into a government archives repository is necessary not only to ensure their ongoing preservation, but also to provide access and accessibility to them for all researchers in an appropriate setting. At present all vital event records gatekeepers in …
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Correlation of Vaginal and Cervical Cytology With Pathological Biopsy With Special Emphasis on the Borderline Lesion
… mortality rate from the National Office of Vital Statistics of .26 per thousand for carcinoma of the cervix in the same age group. Even allowing for a 50 per cent cure throughout the country these authors found eight times as many in situ cancers as can be accounted for by deaths from cancer …
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Coaching tools for high-performance driving
… ease of navigating though the data. A summary of vital statistics is created for each segment to bring key information to the surface. Two methods of displaying information about the driving line were also developed. One uses color overlaid on a track path to depict the path radius, the other …
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Exploratory Descriptive Review Of Certified Nurse-Midwifery Outcomes Related To Scope Of Practice Legislation
… and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics public use website, Vital Statistics Online and CDC Wonder. Variables were the quality measures of neonatal mortality, preterm birth, and low birth weight analyzed by CNM care or care by other providers. The results were decreased low …
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Determinants of Teenage Childbearing in the United States
… and 2010. Using age-period-cohort models with Vital Statistics birth data and Census population counts, I show that the decline was driven by period changes in the early 1990s but by cohort changes between the mid-1990s and mid-2000s. I also use a difference-in-differences model to investigate …
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"""What I Did Is Who I Am"": African American Women and Resistance to Slavery in Colonial and Revolutionary New England"
… readings of traditional social history sources---vital statistics, probate records, and periodicals. I integrate these with literary sources---diaries, slave narratives, poetry, and prose. I also study the biographies of several early African American women and recreate biographies of others whose …
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The effect of nutritional assessment and counseling of underweight pregnant women enrolled in nutrition intervention project (NIP)
… was greater when compared with the state vital statistics. Black women appeared to be more vulnerable than white women or women of other ethnic group. No significant difference was seen in the incidence of preterm and low birth weight infants born to underweight women who remained …
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Green space, blue space, & neonatal health: exploring the relationship between environmental factors & birth outcomes in New York City
… age. Data on these outcomes originate from vital statistics birth records for the year 2000. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), the 2005-2006 NYC Street Tree Census, and access to major green spaces act as measures of residential greenness, while proximity to publicly …
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Knowledge, Power, and International Development: Beyond Critique
… on my published work on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) as part of the international development agenda. From an anthropological perspective, CRVS documents such as birth and death registrations represent a mutual relationship between nation-states and citizens, conferring rights …
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Modelagem dos registros de nascimentos com as condições de vida no semiárido brasileiro
… well as maternal and child care. In the feld of vital statistics there are problems with births underreporting, whose the studies, are useful for monitoring and improving the quality of data. The current work aimed modeling the variable birth record with the living conditions of the Brazilian …
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Presentation And Understanding Of Mortality Through Geospatial And Administrative Boundaries: An Examination Of Rates And Correlates Of Mortality In Texas Census Tracts
This capstone project analyses Texas vital statistics data through visual and tabular presentation of county-level age-adjusted mortality rates for all-cause and cause-specific mortality (including heart, cancer, and stroke) and through multilevel regression analyses of deaths at the census tract …
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Prevention of childhood drowning: A review of current community interventions and their effect on recreational drowning mortality in children
… developed to decrease drowning risk in children. Vital statistics, in addition to published data, were acquired to identify specific high risk groups based on sociodemographic factors, especially race or socioeconomic status. Finally, interventions were assessed and a determination made as to …
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