{
  "name": "vital-statistics-mcp",
  "title": "HealthMesh · Vital Statistics (NCHS / VSRR) MCP",
  "version": "0.1.1",
  "description": "NCHS vital statistics from published summary tables on data.cdc.gov (not NVSS microdata): provisional births/deaths/infant deaths by state (VSRR), provisional drug-overdose death counts, quarterly provisional mortality rates by cause, infant and maternal mortality, historical leading causes of death, life expectancy, and natality rates. CDC WONDER and record-level NVSS public-use files are not covered.",
  "healthmesh_domain": "Public Health & SDOH",
  "datasets": [
    "PH-05"
  ],
  "mcp_endpoint": "https://vital-statistics.healthmesh.ai/mcp",
  "transport": "Streamable HTTP (stateless, JSON responses)",
  "authorization": "none",
  "auth_mode": "off",
  "docs": "https://github.com/HendrikK/healthmesh/tree/main/servers/vital-statistics-mcp#readme",
  "contact": "hendrik.kleine@gmail.com",
  "data_source": {
    "name": "CDC/NCHS vital statistics summaries on data.cdc.gov (VSRR provisional counts and rates; NCHS leading causes, life expectancy, natality)",
    "url": "https://data.cdc.gov",
    "license": "U.S. Government work, public domain",
    "refresh": "live (3 h edge cache); upstream monthly to quarterly"
  },
  "tools": [
    {
      "name": "nvss_count_births",
      "title": "Provisional live-birth counts (VSRR) and natality rates",
      "description": "Returns NCHS Vital Statistics Rapid Release (VSRR) provisional counts of live births by state and month (data.cdc.gov hmz2-vwda), and/or historical national natality measures by race/Hispanic origin (89yk-m38d: live births, birth rate, fertility rate through 2018). PARTIAL: maternal age, payer, delivery method, gestational age, birthweight and other NVSS microdata filters are not available (no WONDER / no public-use file ingest)."
    },
    {
      "name": "nvss_count_deaths",
      "title": "Death counts and rates (VSRR, leading causes, overdose)",
      "description": "Returns NCHS death statistics from published summaries: VSRR provisional all-cause / infant death counts by state (hmz2-vwda), historical leading causes of death with age-adjusted rates through 2017 (bi63-dtpu), provisional drug-overdose death counts by state and drug class (xkb8-kh2a), or VSRR quarterly provisional mortality rates by cause (489q-934x). PARTIAL: ICD-10 underlying/multiple-cause filters, manner, place of death and age-group microdata tabulations require WONDER or NVSS PUF ingest and are not available."
    },
    {
      "name": "nvss_get_trend",
      "title": "Vital-statistics time series",
      "description": "Returns an annual or monthly/quarterly series from NCHS summary tables: VSRR birth/death/infant counts, provisional overdose counts, quarterly cause-specific mortality rates, historical leading-cause rates, life expectancy, or natality rates. PARTIAL: custom microdata definitions (e.g. cesarean rate, ICD-10 any-mention) are not available."
    },
    {
      "name": "nvss_get_infant_maternal",
      "title": "Provisional infant and maternal mortality",
      "description": "Returns NCHS VSRR quarterly provisional infant / neonatal / postneonatal mortality rates (jqwm-z2g9) and provisional maternal death counts and rates (e2d5-ggg7, 12-month-ending)."
    },
    {
      "name": "nvss_describe_dataset",
      "title": "Describe vital-statistics sources and limits",
      "description": "Explains which NCHS / VSRR data.cdc.gov datasets this server wraps, year coverage, tool mapping, and what is not covered (NVSS microdata, CDC WONDER)."
    }
  ]
}