ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2012
History of the birth certificate: from inception to the future of electronic data.
Article in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- Defining an Infant's Race and Ethnicity: A Systematic Review.Pediatrics · 2023Pooled it
- National Variation in Black Immigrant Preterm Births and the Role of County-Level Social Factors.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Observational
- Midwifery Care in the United States: Increasing Access and Utilization to Improve Perinatal Health Outcomes.Obstetrical & gynecological survey · 2025Review
- Methodologic considerations in estimating racial disparity of mortality among very preterm infants.Pediatric research · 2025Review
- The "Other" race category on birth certificates and its impact on analyses of preterm birth inequity.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
- Relationships between state-level general population alcohol policies and birth outcomes: Results from 1972-2019 vital statistics.PloS one · 2025Article
- Early-life physical performance predicts the aging and death of elite athletes.Science advances · 2023Article
- Inequalities in cesarean births between American Indian & Alaska Native people and White people.Health services research · 2023Article
- Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy pre- and postaspirin guideline publication in individuals with pregestational diabetes mellitus.American journal of obstetrics & gynecology MFM · 2023Article
- Childhood exposure to birth registration laws and old-age mortality.Health economics · 2023Article
- Concordance of neonatal critical condition data between secondary databases: Florida and Texas birth certificate Linkage with medicaid analytic extract.BMC medical research methodology · 2023Article
- Documenting Families: Paper-Work in Family Display among Planned Single Father Families.Sociology · 2022Article
- Both parents matter: a national-scale analysis of parental race/ethnicity, disparities in prenatal PMEnvironmental health : a global access science source · 2022Article
- The geography of ethnoracial low birth weight inequalities in the United States.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Why Who Marries Whom Matters: Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Infant Health in the U.S. 1969-1994.Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2020Article
- Errors as a primary cause of late-life mortality deceleration and plateaus.PLoS biology · 2018Article
- Can the UK's birth registration system better serve the interests of those born following collaborative assisted reproduction?Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2017Article
- How well do birth records serve maternal and child health programs? Birth registration system evaluation, New York City, 2008-2011.Maternal and child health journal · 2015Article
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Abstract
Enumerations of people were carried out long before the birth of Jesus. Data related to births were recorded in church registers in England as early as the 1500s. However, not until the 1902 Act of Congress was the Bureau of Census established as a permanent agency to develop birth registration areas and a standard registration system. Although all states had birth records by 1919, the use of the standardized version was not uniformly adopted until the 1930's. In the 1989 US Standard Birth Certificate revision, the format was finally uniformly adopted to include checkboxes to improve data quality and completeness. The evolution of the 12 federal birth certificate revisions is reflected in the growth of the number of items from 33 in 1900 to more than 60 items in the 2003 birth certificate. As birth registration has moved from paper to electronic, the birth certificate's potential utility has broadened, yet issues with updating the electronic format and maintaining quality data continue to evolve. Understanding the birth certificate within its historical context allows for better insight as to how it has been and will continue to be used as an important public-health document shaping medical and public policies.
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