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035 _a(OCLC)56482472
035 _a13709956
040 _aDNLM/DLC
_cDLC
_dDLC
_dBD-DhEWU
_beng
041 _aeng
050 0 0 _aRA407
_b.H443 2005
060 1 0 _aWA 950
_bH43451 2005
060 4 _aWA 950
_bHEA
082 0 4 _a614.42
_bHEA 2005
245 0 0 _aHealth statistics :
_bshaping policy and practice to improve the population's health /
_cedited by Daniel J. Friedman, Edward L. Hunter, R. Gibson Parrish II.
260 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2005.
300 _axxiii, 536 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _tTOC
_aPART 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
520 _aHealth 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 is guided throughout by a comprehensive model of population health that expands the traditionally held view of what factors influence health
526 _aMPRHGD
590 _aSagar Shahanawaz
650 0 _aMedical statistics.
_917030
650 2 2 _aData Collection
_xmethods.
_917031
650 2 2 _aHealth Surveys.
_917032
650 2 _aStatistics as Topic.
_917033
700 1 _aFriedman, Daniel J.
_917034
700 1 _aHunter, Edward L.
_917035
700 1 _aParrish, R. Gibson.
_917036
856 4 2 _3WorldCat details
_uhttps://www.worldcat.org/title/health-statistics-shaping-policy-and-practice-to-improve-the-populations-health/oclc/56482472&referer=brief_results
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