Published online December 1, 2004
PEDIATRICS Vol. 114 No. 6 December 2004, pp. 1671-1672 (doi:10.1542/peds.2004-2249)
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COMMENTARY

A Delay in Publication of the "Annual Summary of Vital Statistics" and the Need for New Vital Registration and Statistics Systems for the United States

Charles J. Rothwell, MS, MBA and Edward J. Sondik, PhD

National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control
Hyattsville, MD 20782

Bernard Guyer, MD, MPH

Department of Population and Family Health Sciences
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD 21205

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Since 1950, an "Annual Summary of Vital Statistics" article has appeared in every December issue of Pediatrics. For 44 years, the article was written by Myron Wegman,1 a pediatrician and public health leader, who died earlier this year at the age of 95.2 Since 1995, the article has been authored by a group of colleagues from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.3 The goal of the article has been to keep pediatricians and public health officials up to date with the changing indicators of reproductive, perinatal, and children’s health in the United States.

The delay in publishing this year’s "Annual Summary" requires an explanation to the many readers who have come to expect it. The specific reason for the delay is late receipt of data from some states. This lack of timeliness is attributed to state systems that were not easily modified to handle the new data standards for the 2003 revisions of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Address correspondence to Bernard Guyer, MD, MPH, Zanvyl Krieger Professor of Children’s Health, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Room E4146, Baltimore, MD 21205. E-mail: bguyer@jhsph.edu




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