VITAL STATISTICS
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Essential Questions
What is it?
Why is it important to public health practice?
What essential information does it supply -i.e., how does it function relative to public
health practice?
Who uses this information and for what
purposes?
What problems of information reliability and
validity are encountered?
PRINCIPAL APPLICATIONS OF
STATISTICS IN PUBLIC HEASLTH
DEMOGRAPHY
DEMOGRAPHY
Statistics on migration and their effects, and their
relation to economic conditions
Statistics of crime, illegitimacy and suicide
Size of population
Age distribution
Sex/Gender distribution
Income levels
Education levels
Occupation
Race/Ethnicity
Residence
Who Uses
Demographic Information?
DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS
DEMOGRAPHY OF AGING