Finding and Using Health Statistics
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Health Data Sources
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This section will explore how health and medical information is collected, and where it comes from.
The main sources of health statistics are surveys, administrative and medical records, claims data, vital records, surveillance, disease registries, and peer-reviewed literature. We’ll take a look into these sources, and the pros and cons of using each to create health statistics.
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