3. Health Information

Question 1

3. Health Information

a) Populations:

Answer 1

1. conduct of censuses;

Question 2

3. Health Information

a) Populations:

Answer 2

2. collection of routine and ad hoc data;

Question 3

3. Health Information

a) Populations:

Answer 3

3. demography;

Question 4

3. Health Information

a) Populations:

Answer 4

4. important regional and international differences in populations, in respect of age, sex, occupation, socio economic position, ethnicity and other characteristics

Question 5

3. Health Information

a) Populations:

Answer 5

5. methods of population estimation and projection;

Question 6

3. Health Information

a) Populations:

Answer 6

6. life-tables and their demographic applications;

Question 7

3. Health Information

a) Populations:

Answer 7

7. population projections;

Question 8

3. Health Information

a) Populations:

Answer 8

8. the effect on population structure of fertility, mortality and migration;

Question 9

3. Health Information

a) Populations:

Answer 9

9. historical changes in population size and structure and factors underlying them;

Question 10

3. Health Information

a) Populations:

Answer 10

10. the significance of demographic changes for the health of the population and on the need for health and related services

Question 11

3. Health Information

a) Populations:

Answer 11

11. 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)

Question 12

3. Health Information

b) Sickness and health:

Answer 12

1. 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

Question 13

3. Health Information

b) Sickness and health:

Answer 13

2. biases and artifacts in population data;

Question 14

3. Health Information

b) Sickness and health:

Answer 14

3. the International Classification of Diseases and other methods of classification of disease and medical care

Question 15

3. Health Information

b) Sickness and health:

Answer 15

4. rates and ratios used to measure health status including geographical, occupational, socio economic position and other socio demographic variations

Question 16

3. Health Information

b) Sickness and health:

Answer 16

1. routine notification and registration systems for births, deaths and specific diseases, including cancer and other morbidity registers

Question 17

3. Health Information

b) Sickness and health:

Answer 17

5. pharmacoepidemiology, including use of prescribing and pharmacy sales data; pharmacovigilance

Question 18

3. Health Information

b) Sickness and health:

Answer 18

6. data linkage within and across datasets

Question 19

3. Health Information

c) Applications:

Answer 19

1. use of information for health service planning and evaluation;

Question 20

3. Health Information

c) Applications:

Answer 20

2. specification and uses of information systems;

Question 21

3. Health Information

c) Applications:

Answer 21

3. common measures of health service provision and usage;

Question 22

3. Health Information

c) Applications:

Answer 22

4. the uses of mathematical modeling techniques in health service planning;

Question 23

3. Health Information

c) Applications:

Answer 23

5. indices of needs for and outcome of services;

Question 24

3. Health Information

c) Applications:

Answer 24

6. the strengths, uses, interpretation and limitations of routine health information;

Question 25

3. Health Information

c) Applications:

Answer 25

7. use of information technology in the processing and analysis of health services information and in support of the provision of health care

Question 26

3. Health Information

c) Applications:

Answer 26

[principles of information governance] (The concept of information governance has been introduced since 2005 and this addition makes explicit the critical importance of information governance (including data security concerns) in the modern uses of health information)