Use of Vital and Health Statistics

Measurement of state of health:

To evaluate the level of health in a community and pinpoint its health issues and requirements. Eg.

1. Incidence and prevalence rate of certain disease ie. Incidence of diarrhoea (2069/2070) =598/1000-5years children of new visit.
2. Status of child health ie. IMR 46/1000 give birth (2011 NDHS), Neonatal Mortality Rate 33/1000 (2011 NDHS), U5MR- 54/1000 (2011 NDHS).
3. Level of maternal health ie. MMR- 229/100,000 live birth (2009/2010)

Comparison of health status

1. For local, national and international comparison of health status. ie. Crude Birth Rate in 20.......     ln Nepal-......./ 1000populations ln Japan-......./ 1000pooulations
2. For comparison the present status that of the past ie. IMR of Nepal: 1987 - 113/1000 live births, 1992 - 107/1000, 1996 - 79/1000, 2011 -........./1000
3. Tenth Five year plan's achievement 48/ 1000 live birth

Planning:

Planning is the process of making decisions that guide future action.

National health planning is described as "the systematic method of defining community health problems, identifying unmet needs and surveying the resources to meet them, establishing priority goals that are realistic and doable, and projecting administrative action to an accomplish the purpose of the purposed program."

Areas of Planning:

• Main Object
• Supportive activities
• Community liasion
• Marketing
• Extension activities
• Emergency preparedness

For example: immunization services, family planning, nutrition programme etc.

Assessment:

A patient's health status, whether it be that of an individual, family, or community, as well as the state of the current health care delivery system, can be analyzed through assessment, which is an organized and systematic process of gathering data from a variety of resources.

Evaluation:

Evaluation is the methodical process of assessing the value of a project, a system, or a course of actual versus anticipated system performance. An essential managerial task is evaluation. Finding the answers to the following questions is part of evaluation.

• Are employees functioning as expected?
• Is equipment performing as efficiently as anticipated?
• Are records being properly maintained?
• Do resources use up completely?
• Are the worker's collaborative efforts yielding the expected results to the same extent?

Research:

A scientific investigation or experimentation procedure known as research involves the methodical, focused, and exacting collecting of data. The data are then analyzed and interpreted in order to learn new things or advance our understanding of the world. The ultimate goal of research is to create a systematic corpus of scientific knowledge. "The methodical investigation into and examination of materials and sources to ascertain facts and draw new inferences." The following is a list of a study's necessary components:

• Logical planning.
• Standardization of terminology, processes, and tools.
• The reliability of measurements.
• Accuracy in reporting the results.