Narrative review demonstrates methods for interpreting vital statistics in the general population, highlighting the role of national registries in tracking population health.
In the United Kingdom we are fortunate in having systems for medical statistics that in many respects are more comprehensive than those of other countries. Both the statistics and their use depend on their being accepted and promoted by the medical professions. Most national medical statistics are managed by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS).1 One of the main functions of its medical statistics division is developing and exploiting statistical systems by which to analyse the changing state of health of the nation. In this paper I discuss some general principles and recent statistics.
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A M Adelstein (1978) studied this question.
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