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ABOUT HEALTH STATISTICS
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This part of the course:
  • Reviews the importance of health statistics.
  • Describes how health statistics are created.
  • Discusses how the goals and perspectives of organizations that collect and report health statistics shape the material reported and
  • Reviews how health statistics promote population health and enhance societal well being.
 
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Last reviewed: 04 January 2008
Last updated: 04 January 2008
First published: 04 January 2008
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