Question

________ are a vital part of the public health assessment function and are used to identify special risk groups, to detect new health threats, to plan public health programs and evaluate their successes, and to prepare government budgets.

Answer 1

Answer:Health statistics

Explanation:

''HEALTH STATISTICS are a vital part of the public health assessment function and are used to identify special risk groups, to detect new health threats, to plan public health programs and evaluate their successes, and to prepare government budgets.''

Health statistics are set of numbers concerning areas of health for example, number of mortality(mortality statistics), birth statistics, marriage statistics and so on.

Health statistics are used to predict the pattern of disease in group of people.