title: [Accessibility of routine statistical data for measuring health status of population in critical situations].
abstract: Crisis and critical situations introduce changes in all aspects of life and also in health status of population. Exact and prompt data are necessary for taking adequate actions. We observed data which are regularly collected on federal and republic level. We considered data describing population, health, health services, social insurance and social economic indicators related to public health. The results of our research show that from 11 publications related to fields of interest only one (the publication on infectious diseases) was published in 1994, the most of them (7) was published in 1993. and three in 1992. Data concerning the number of population include the census year (1991), however for Kosovo and Metohija and municipalities Bujanovac and Presevo number of population is estimated according to census in 1981. Natural increase and infant mortality has been presented by data from 1992. Specific mortality by causes of death has been shown for 1991, except concerning infectious diseases were data are for 1993 in Serbia and 1992 in Montenegro. Data on health services have been acceptable for 1992, and socio-economic data partly for 1992 (the number of employees, earnings and living costs), partly for 1991 (national income, domestic product, housing construction), however data on literacy status of population have been from the census in 1981. Considering the necessity for rapid assessment of the health status of population this research stresses the need for timely and additional collection of data.
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authors.lastname: Vuković
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authors.lastname: Jusuframić
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authors.lastname: Bjegović
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D054548:Montenegro / Q000453:epidemiology; D015022:Yugoslavia / Q000453:epidemiology