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This totally revised edition of a classic textbook covers the context and background of public health informatics, explores the technology and science underlying the field, discusses new challenges and emerging solutions, reviews many key public health information systems, and includes practical, ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Magnuson, J. A. (Editor), Fu, Paul C., Jr (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [London] : Springer, [2014]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Health informatics.
Subjects:
Medicine.
Public health.
Medical records > Data processing.
Medical Informatics.
Public Health.
Medical Informatics Applications.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to public health informatics
  • History and significance of information systems and public health
  • Context and value of biomedical and health informatics
  • Governmental and legislative context of informatics
  • Public health informatics infrastructure
  • Information architecture
  • Data sources and data tools
  • Public health information standards
  • Privacy, confidentiality, and security of public health information
  • Electronic health records
  • Ethics, information technology, and public health : duties and challenges in computational epidemiology
  • Project management and public health informatics
  • Evaluation for public health informatics
  • Informatics in disease prevention and epidemiology
  • Informatics in toxicology and environmental public health
  • Public health laboratories
  • The national vital statistics system
  • Risk factor information systems
  • Setting national policies and standards for immunization information systems
  • New means of data collection and accessibility
  • Geographic information systems
  • Public health informatics and health information exchange
  • Decision support and expert systems in public health
  • Delivery of preventive medicine in primary care
  • Case-based learning in public health informatics
  • Local and regional public health informatics
  • Public health informatics in high population states : New York and Ohio
  • State public health informatics : perspective from a low population state
  • National public health informatics, United States
  • Public health informatics in Canada
  • Perspectives on global public health informatics
  • Public health informatics : the path forward.