Health Statistics: Shaping policy and practice to improve the population's health - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0195149289 ISBN 13: 9780195149289

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2005

Riassunto

Health statistics have been an essential tool for improving the health of populations for centuries, yet no single book covers the key elements in developing, using, and improving them. This volume fills that crucial gap by providing a comprehensive account of the essential concepts and complex underpinnings of health statistics. It gives a broad and detailed view of the sources and uses of health statistics and explores contemporary issues confronting the health statistics enterprise, including privacy, technology, and the emergence of health data standards. It also proposes fundamental changes needed to improve health statistics that can be embraced by practitioners at all levels of government and the private sector. The book is guided throughout by a comprehensive model of population health that expands the traditionally held view of what factors influence health.

The chapters are grouped into five sections: defining health statistics-context, history, and organization; collecting and compiling health statistics; putting health statistics to use; identifying current and forthcoming issues and transforming health statistics through new conceptual frameworks. This logical organization helps make the book suitable for graduate courses in public health and public health surveillance, health services research, population health statistics, or population health information systems. It will be equally useful for the staff of the many organizations that comprise the health statistics enterprise, for health professionals seeking a broader context for their efforts, and for researchers aiming to advance the field of health statistics and their application to health policy or public health practice.

Su questo libro

Contenuti:

• Part 1: Defining health statistics: context, history, and organization
• 1: Defining health statistics and their scope
• 2: Health statistics in historical perspective
• 3: The health statistics enterprise
• Part 2: Collecting and compiling health statistics
• 4: Health statistics from notifications, registration systems, and registries
• 5: Health surveys: a resource to inform health policy and practice
• 6: Administrative health data
• 7: Health statistics from nonhealth sources
• 8: Standards and their use in health statistics
• 9: Linking and combining data to develop statistics for understanding the population's health
• Part 3: Using health statistics
• 10: Health statistics and knowledge creation
• 11: Why truth matters: the role of health statistics in health policy
• 12: Health statistics in public health practice
• Part 4: Identifying current and forthcoming issues in health statistics
• 13: Population health monitoring
• 14: Privacy, confidentiality, and health statistics
• 15: New technologies and health statistics
• 16: Modeling health: the role of simulation models in health information systems
• Part 5: Transforming health statistics through new conceptual frameworks
• 17: Recent developments in health information: an international perspective
• 18: From health statistics to health information systems: a new path for the 21st Century
• 19: Population health: new paradigms and implications for health information systems
• 20: The national health information infrastructure
• 21: Summing up: towards a 21st Century vision for health statistics

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0195149289
• ISBN 13: 9780195149289
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 560
• Redattore: Friedman Daniel J., Hunter Edward L., Parrish II R. Gibson