Statistical methods in primary public health care

The set of statistical methods used in primary health is related with the same domains as general public health, that is epidemiology, design and maintenance of sanitary strategies, the administration and the sanitary economy. Nevertheless, the primary attention needs certain special statistical methods which depend on the particular structures, such as the relations between public and private sectors, the equipment of the basic sanitary center, the degree of centralization of the sanitary system, and fundamentally the structure of the communications among its parts. Some typical problems are discussed.