MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1996 Oct 25;45(42):914-9.
Timely and accurate health data are essential to public health surveillance efforts for monitoring trends in vital events, diseases, injuries, and disabilities. More timely release of accurate vital statistics has been identified as a priority by health agencies at the federal, state, and local levels and in academia and the private sector. In response to the need for faster release of high-quality data, CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), in collaboration with state vital statistics offices, has initiated a new system to speed the transmission of vital statistics from states to CDC. This initiative has resulted in the availability of near-final natality and mortality data approximately 1 year before final data usually are released. This report presents the selected findings of an analysis of preliminary birth and death records for 1995. The number of births in the United States declined for the fifth consecutive year to an estimated 3,900,089 in 1995, 1% fewer than the final 1994 total of 3,952,767 (Table 1). In addition, the estimated number of deaths in 1995 totaled 2,312,180 (Table 2), 1% more than the previous record high of 2,278,994 in 1994.
及时、准确的健康数据对于公共卫生监测工作至关重要，这些工作旨在监测生命事件、疾病、伤害和残疾的趋势。联邦、州和地方各级的卫生机构以及学术界和私营部门已将更及时发布准确的生命统计数据确定为优先事项。为响应更快发布高质量数据的需求，美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）的国家卫生统计中心（NCHS）与各州生命统计办公室合作，启动了一个新系统，以加快生命统计数据从各州向CDC的传输。这一举措使得在最终数据通常发布前约1年就能获得接近最终的出生和死亡数据。本报告介绍了对1995年初步出生和死亡记录分析的选定结果。美国的出生人数连续第五年下降，1995年估计为3900089例，比1994年的最终总数3952767例少1%（表1）。此外，1995年的估计死亡人数总计2312180例（表2），比1994年之前创纪录的2278994例多1%。
