World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 429: Statistics of Health Services and of Their Activities

By P. Dorolle

Book Id: WPLBN0000123260
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 429: Statistics of Health Services and of Their Activities
Author:	P. Dorolle
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
Previous reports of WHO expert committes on health statistics have dealt with many of the problems of hospital statistics and morbidity statistics in general,2 but none has considered in any detail the statistics required for the organization and administration of health services. In the background document prepared for the technical discussions on the collection and use of health statistics in national and local health services. held at the Nineteenth World Health Assembly in 1966, it was pointed out that most countries regard information on the working of their health services as an essential and important part of health statistics. Basically, they want data on the number: size, and distribution of establishments and the personnel employed in them, and details of the levels of training of the personnel

Table of Contents
CONTENTS 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 2 . The need for health service statistics . . . . . . . . . . .6 3 . Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 3.1 Buildings. equipment. and facilities . . . . . . . . . . .8 3.2 Health manpower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 3.3 Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 4 . Statistics of the activities and utilization of health services............. . .13 4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 4.2 Curative activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 4.3 Certain preventive activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 4.4 General discussion of methods . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 4.5 Statistics of supporting services . . . . . . . . . . . .19 4.6 Environmental health statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 5 . Statistics relating to special services . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 5.2 Statistics relating to services for special population groups.....................23 5.3 Statistics for special disease groups . . . . . . . . . . .27 6 . The evaluation of the efficiency and effectix-eness of health services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 6.2 Indices for evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 6.3 International class8cation of health service activities . . .32 7 . Organizational requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 7.1 Organization for the supply of routine hospital and clinic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 7.2 Organization for the supply of routine data from various non-hospital sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 .. . 7.3 The training of personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34