Routine health data INCOMPLETE

Question 1

What is routine data?

Answer 1

Collected, collated and disseminated on a regular basis

Question 2

What is health data?

Answer 2

Data to describe population health status
Data about healthcare
Data on factors influencing health

Question 3

Why is routine health data collected?

Answer 3

Monitor health of the population
Generate hypotheses on causes of ill health
Inform planning of services and policy to meet health needs
Evaluate and assess performance of policies and services
Generate research statistics

Question 4

Types of health information usually collected in England?

Answer 4

Deaths (mortality)
Diseases (morbidity)
Use and quality of healthcare
Health status/Quality of life
Individual lifestyle (health related behaviour)
Wider determinants
Populations demographics

Question 5

How are morbidity statistics collected?

Answer 5

Doctor completes certificate of cause
‘Informant’ takes certificate to local registrar and registers death
Copy of registration sent to ONS where causes of death are coded
ONS compile and publish mortality statistics
- last point

Question 6

What does WHO define the underlying cause of death as?

Answer 6

a) the diseae or injury that initiated the tain of events directly leading to death or
b) the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury

Question 7

what code are death certificates converted into?

Answer 7

Converted into code using the ICD-10
Has chapters and within each chapter, section with codes

Question 8

What is quality of data split into?

Answer 8

CART
Completeness
Accuracy
Relevance/ representativeness
Timeliness

Question 9

Is the quality of mortality data good?

Answer 9

Its legally required
system not hard, easy to get right
Not always accurate classification

Question 10

What is the incidence of a disease?

Answer 10

number of new cases in a particular population during a particular time interval

Question 11

i got lost… go over the lecture :(