1. Daniela Nitcheva, PhD Division of Biostatistics PHSIS
Vital Statistics Data
Daniela Nitcheva, PhD
Division of Biostatistics
PHSIS

2. Office of Public Health Statistics and Information Services (PHSIS)
PHSIS structure:
Division of Registration (of Vital Records)
Division of Vital Records
Division of Biostatistics (Vital Statistics)
SC Central Cancer Registry
Division of Surveillance

3. Vital Statistics Birth Registry Death Registry Fetal Death Reports
Infant Mortality Data
Fetal Death Reports
Induced Termination of Pregnancy Reports
Marriages and Divorces

4. Statistics
We receive records of events in other states for residents of SC
Annual statistics representative of residents of the state/county
Provisional statistics available by request – results are subject to change

5. Public Health Uses of Data
Vital event data is very important to public health. It can impact program areas within an agency, the community and the nation.
Vital event data can be used to justify the need for a new public health program to be established, as well as keep the program in place by showing its progress.
Vital event data can be used at the community level for public health community partners and studying possible clusters of cancer, stroke, heart disease, etc.

6. Public Health Uses of Data
Birth data can be used at the community level for public health community partners and to study:
possible clusters of birth defects
rates of LBW babies
prematurity
relations between mother’s health and baby’s health
teen pregnancy

7. Birth Certificate Indicators
Risk factors in pregnancy – diabetes (pre- pregnancy, gestational), hypertension
Infections during pregnancy
Method of delivery, characteristics – induction, fetal intolerance, antibiotics
Maternal morbidity – transfusion, hysterectomy
Abnormal conditions of the newborn – NICU, seizure
Congenital anomalies of the newborn

8. Infant Mortality Data
Infant death records are linked with birth records
Allows to link cause of death to maternal and infant characteristics

9. Death Certificate Data
Demographic information
New questions on Tobacco and Pregnancy
Cause of death
Coded according to ICD-10 (since 1999)
Up to 20 contributing causes
Leading causes of death

10. SCAN Website
A website that allows generation of user specified tables and interactive maps of public health data.
Search for: DHEC SCAN
Types of data that you can get from SCAN:
Frequencies, percentages, rates, confidence intervals.
Tables, trend-lines, bar charts, maps

17. Contact information and links:
Daniela Nitcheva
SCAN:
Publications:
statisticsPublications/