Rice D P, Drury T F, Mugge R H
Med Care. 1980 Mar;18(3):327-35. doi: 10.1097/00005650-198003000-00007.
Efforts to identify information needs in the area of minority health have been paralleled by efforts within the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) both to improve the quantity and quality of minority health statistics and to increase the accessibility of these statistics to data users. This paper describes the context in which these objectives are pursued within NCHS. The paper also discusses problem areas which may confound the development and usefulness of minority health statistics derived from general-purpose, household interview surveys designed to produce descriptive estimates of morbidity and health services utilization at the national level. Developments within NCHS related to some of these problem areas are highlighted.
在努力识别少数族裔健康领域信息需求的同时，国家卫生统计中心（NCHS）也在努力提高少数族裔健康统计数据的数量和质量，并增加数据用户获取这些统计数据的机会。本文描述了NCHS为实现这些目标所面临的背景情况。本文还讨论了一些可能会混淆源自旨在生成全国发病率和卫生服务利用情况描述性估计值的通用家庭访谈调查的少数族裔健康统计数据的开发和实用性的问题领域。文中强调了NCHS在与其中一些问题领域相关方面的进展。
