Vital and Health Statistics Series: An Annotated Checklist and Index to the Publications of the Rainbow Series

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The "Vital and Health Statistics Series", or what documents and medical librarians call "The Rainbow Series", includes four series published by the US National Health Survey between 1958 and 1963, and eighteen series published by the National Centre for Health Statistics since 1963. sixteen of these are still active. In this volume, Jim Walsh and A.James Bothmer list, annotate, and index all of the reports published in the Rainbow Series, a total of 853 reports. Each entry contains standard bibliographical information and cataloging, publisher, and index/abstract access information. The work concludes with author, title, and subject indexes. The volume is the only source that lists annotates and indexes all of the reports and that provides supplemental information that will enhance reference, interlibrary loan, cataloging, and acquisition information, and that will enhance the use of these valuable reports.

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The "Rainbow Series," so called because each numbered series bears covers of a distinct color, consists of more than 800 reports issued since 1958 in 4 series by the National Health Survey, and 16 series by the National Center for Health Statistics. The reports include vital statistics (birth, death, marriage, and divorce) and health statistics. Walsh and Bothmer's checklist includes an entry for each report, providing bibliographic, cataloging, and availability information, and an abstract. There are separate author, title, and subject indexes. Listings in the subject index are not always sufficiently subdivided: there are 76 undifferentiated entries under "Hospital Utilization." Recommended for medical and public health collections, and for any library owning many of the "Rainbow Series" reports.-Choice
This book is recommended for purchase by academic health sciences libraries, research libraries, and libraries with substantial government documents or statistics collections.-Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
"This book is recommended for purchase by academic health sciences libraries, research libraries, and libraries with substantial government documents or statistics collections."-Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
"The "Rainbow Series," so called because each numbered series bears covers of a distinct color, consists of more than 800 reports issued since 1958 in 4 series by the National Health Survey, and 16 series by the National Center for Health Statistics. The reports include vital statistics (birth, death, marriage, and divorce) and health statistics. Walsh and Bothmer's checklist includes an entry for each report, providing bibliographic, cataloging, and availability information, and an abstract. There are separate author, title, and subject indexes. Listings in the subject index are not always sufficiently subdivided: there are 76 undifferentiated entries under "Hospital Utilization." Recommended for medical and public health collections, and for any library owning many of the "Rainbow Series" reports."-Choice

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JIM WALSH is Head of Government Documents and Microforms at the O'Neill Library, Boston College. He is the author of Maps Contained in the Publications of the American Bibliography, 1639-1819: An Index and Checklist (1988). A. JAMES BOTHMER is Associate Director for Public Services, McGoogan Library, University of Nebraska Medical Center.