Report on a National Death Index -- Pros and Cons.

The article offers information about the establishment of the National Death Index in the U.S. It is stated that the National Death Index is the list of the names of all persons who died in the country in a given year together with a limited amount of additional identifying information. Because of the request of the President's Commission on Federal Statistics, a statement of concept of the National Index has been prepared by the Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association. Moreover, three main positions concerning the creation of the National Death Index has been identified by the Statistics Section.