Decison Making in Public Health

Question 1

What are the two headings that emphasize ways to improve emergency and other decision making processes?

Answer 1

Governance
Data Driven Management
Health Technology Assessment
Clincal Guidelines and Protocals

Question 2

Summarise Governance?

Answer 2

Expanding international cooperation and health care accredition programs to guarantee reliability of healthcare practices, surveillance, safety systems on ground
- Strengthening education for leadership development of public heath officials and clnincans to enable engagement, trust and resilience

Question 3

Summarise Data Driven Management?

Answer 3

Information and Data set should be in public domain eg. Covid19
to provide broader development of models and data supporting health authorities and agencies in public decisions
- Peer observations and bottom up inputs
- Multiple scientific competences should be institutionalised as “scientific civil protection” for activation during emergencies to perform timely analysis and experiments tailored on policy questions

Question 4

Summarise Health Technology Assessment

Answer 4

• Content based analysis of cultural, organizational, social, economic and ethical issues
• 1ST policy makers and people must be properly educated in health technology assessment
  2nd Practical models to expedite the appraisal process and resolve technological issues in emergencies
  3rd must have opinion of few experts, exploit collective knowledge (systematic reviews and cost-effective evidence) and crowdsourcing data within structured consensus mechanisms

Question 5

Why do we need Evidence informed decision making?

Answer 5

-Limited availability of evidnence in UAE.
- Expert Evidence
- wave of changes in culture, technology and practise is sweeping the globe, there is an unprecedented opportunity for optimizing the compromise between science nd real world decisions.