Lecture 3: What is Public Health data Flashcards
Give 4 key sources of public health data in the UK:
1) NHS
2) UK Health Security Agency
3) Office for Improvement & Disparities
4) Office for National Statistics
Give three examples of public health data that can be found through the NHS:
1) prevalence of chronic conditions
2) multimorbidity and polypharmacy
3) levels of access to healthcare
Give three examples of data found through UK Health Security Agency:
1) incidence of communicable disease
2) vaccination coverage
3) environmental hazards
What type of data is found through the Office for Improvement and Disparities?
wider determinants of health and health inequalities
Key four examples of data found through the Office for National Statistics:
1) demographic composition e.g age, sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic status
2) mortality
3) longevity
4) common causes of death
Give the 6 main purposes of public health data:
1) disease surveillance
2) studying the cause of disease
3) identifying and monitoring health inequalities
4) matching services with need
5) evaluating the impacts of health interventions
6) empowering communities to identify and raise health concerns
What are the four components of the VACT data evaluation tool?
Validity
Accuracy
Completeness
Timeliness
What does validity check in the VACT data evaluation tool?
does the information capture what you are interested in?
What does accuracy check in the VACT data evaluation tool?
how carefully and precisely was the information collected and recorded?
What does completeness check in the VACT data evaluation tool?
does the information cover all individual or all events you are interested in?
What does timeliness check in the VACT data evaluation tool?
was the information collected recently enough to be meaningful?
