title: Rainbow reviews. VII: Recent publications of the National Center for Health Statistics.
abstract: In this article, selected recent publications of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) are reviewed. In particular, data from a recent NCHS report on hearing loss were found to be consistent with a prediction made in a preview article in this series that there would be an increase in high-tone hearing loss among persons who were exposed to loud music as teenagers and young adults, beginning in the late 1960s, although the data were not specific enough to be considered proof. In addition, the article discusses: (1) recent data on home health care, (2) new insights on how people remember and report on preventive examinations and tests, (3) a comparison of vital statistics in the United States and the Russian Federation, and (4) trends in births to unmarried women.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Jekel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced; D006701:Home Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009309:National Center for Health Statistics, U.S.; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012426:Russia; D015406:Single Parent; D014481:United States; D014798:Vital Statistics