3. Health Information Flashcards
3. Health Information
a) Populations:
- conduct of censuses;
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a) Populations:
- collection of routine and ad hoc data;
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a) Populations:
- demography;
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a) Populations:
- important regional and international differences in populations, in respect of age, sex, occupation, socio economic position, ethnicity and other characteristics
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a) Populations:
- methods of population estimation and projection;
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a) Populations:
- life-tables and their demographic applications;
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a) Populations:
- population projections;
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a) Populations:
- the effect on population structure of fertility, mortality and migration;
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a) Populations:
- historical changes in population size and structure and factors underlying them;
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a) Populations:
- the significance of demographic changes for the health of the population and on the need for health and related services
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a) Populations:
- policies to address population growth nationally and internationally [and globally] (This addition makes explicit the role of global policy setting which is otherwise implicit in
national policies)
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b) Sickness and health:
- sources of routine mortality and morbidity data, including primary care data, and how they are collected and published at international, national, regionanal and local levels
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b) Sickness and health:
- biases and artifacts in population data;
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b) Sickness and health:
- the International Classification of Diseases and other methods of classification of disease and medical care
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b) Sickness and health:
- rates and ratios used to measure health status including geographical, occupational, socio economic position and other socio demographic variations
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b) Sickness and health:
- routine notification and registration systems for births, deaths and specific diseases, including cancer and other morbidity registers
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b) Sickness and health:
- pharmacoepidemiology, including use of prescribing and pharmacy sales data; pharmacovigilance
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b) Sickness and health:
- data linkage within and across datasets
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c) Applications:
- use of information for health service planning and evaluation;
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c) Applications:
- specification and uses of information systems;
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c) Applications:
- common measures of health service provision and usage;
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c) Applications:
- the uses of mathematical modeling techniques in health service planning;
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c) Applications:
- indices of needs for and outcome of services;
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c) Applications:
- the strengths, uses, interpretation and limitations of routine health information;
