Madans J H, Hunter E L
Vital and Health Statistics Systems, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA.
J Public Health Manag Pract. 1996 Fall;2(4):42-4. doi: 10.1097/00124784-199623000-00012.
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is the nation's principal health statistics agency, with a primary mission to collect, disseminate, and analyze health data. NCHS has a clear commitment to a wide range of improvements in surveillance and public health information systems. Building on its long history of conducting multipurpose surveys where the needs and interests of a variety of programmatic interests have to be accommodated, NCHS is working on a number of fronts to improve and better integrate data systems so that they will be more useful for public health surveillance. Examples include the redesign of the National Health Interview Survey, the integration of the Department of Health and Human Services' health surveys, the retooling of the vital statistics system, and the movement to subnational data collection.
美国国家卫生统计中心（NCHS）是美国主要的卫生统计机构，其主要任务是收集、传播和分析卫生数据。NCHS明确致力于在监测和公共卫生信息系统方面进行广泛改进。基于其开展多用途调查的悠久历史，在这种调查中必须兼顾各种项目利益的需求和兴趣，NCHS正在多个方面努力改进并更好地整合数据系统，以便它们对公共卫生监测更有用。例子包括重新设计国家健康访谈调查、整合卫生与公众服务部的健康调查、改进生命统计系统，以及转向收集次国家级数据。
