Excerpt from Use of Vital Statistics in Obstetrics Synonyms, Key Words, and Related Terms: mortality rates, birth rates, fertility rates, reproductive mortality rates, targeted interventions, obstetrical public health, maternal mortality rate, indirect maternal death rate, nonmaternal death rate, abortion, preterm infant, postterm infant, stillbirth, live birth, fetal death rate, stillbirth rate, neonatal mortality rate, perinatal mortality rate, infant mortality rate Please click here to view the full topic text: Use of Vital Statistics in Obstetrics Many of the greatest advances in medicine have come as a result of public health interventions rather than individual treatments. The ability to intervene in the health of populations is dependent upon development of appropriate tools for measuring health, illness, and interventions. Only by standardizing communication on such issues as infant mortality can physicians hope to target high-risk populations with effective interventions. Despite the lack of clinical glamour associated with the subject of vital statistics, understanding the common language of public health is vital. Please click here to view the full topic text: Use of Vital Statistics in Obstetrics

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