Chapter 17by Margaret Ross Kraft and Ida Androwich
Using Informatics to Promote Community/Population
Health
Objectives
• Provide an overview of community and population health informatics.
• Describe informatics tools for promoting community and population health.
• Define the roles of federal, state and local public health agencies in the development of public health informatics.
Key Terms Defined
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
• Bioterrorism• Center for Disease Control• Community Risk Assessment
Key Terms Defined
• Epidemiology• National Center for Public Health
Informatics • National Health Information Network
(NHIN) • Public Health
Key Terms Defined
• Public Health Informatics• Public Health Interventions• Regional Health Information Exchange• Risk Assessment
Key Terms Defined
• Suicide Prevention Community Assessment Tool (SPRC)
• Surveillance• Surveillance Data Systems• Syndromic Surveillance
Key Terms Defined
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
Using The Foundation of Knowledge Model
• Population Health Data• Need for Timely Information • The Field of Public Health • Florence Nightingale- A Pioneer
Using The Foundation of Knowledge Model
• Collecting Statistics • Health Information Systems• Changes in Public Health • PHI
Using The Foundation of Knowledge Model
• The Institute of Medicine of Medicine
• Functions of Public Health
Community Health Risk Assessment
• Public Awareness • A Risk Assessment• What is a "threat” ?
Community Health Risk Assessment
• A "risk"• Health risk assessment • Hazard identification
Community Health Risk Assessment
• Exposure Assessment • Dose-Response • Risk Characterization • Specific Risk Assessment Tools
Community Health Risk Assessment
• Additional Risk Assessment Tools
• Assessing Risk
Agency Support of Epidemiology and The Monitoring Disease Outbreaks
• The Availability of Information Technology• Comprehensive Surveillance Effort • Processing Public Health Data • Using a Standardized Vocabulary
Agency Support of Epidemiology and The Monitoring Disease Outbreaks
• What is vital to public health programming?
• Where does the data processed into public health information come from?
• Vital Statistics Data
Applying Knowledge to Health Disaster Planning and Preparation
• Availability of data• Speed of data collection • Special Data Collections • Syndromic surveillance
Informatics Tools to Support Communication and Dissemination
• The Revolution in IT• Two-Way Communication in Healthcare• PH Information Systems• Dissemination of Information • IT solutions
Using Feedback to Improve Responses and Promote Readiness
• Improvement of Community Health• Population Health Data • RHIO/NHIN
Using Feedback to Improve Responses and Promote Readiness
• Public Health Informatics
• Standardization of Data
Thought Provoking Questions
Imagine that you are a public health informatics specialist and you and your colleagues have determined that the threat of a new strain of influenza indicates a need for a mass inoculation program.
• What public health data would have been used to determine the need for such a program and
• What data will be collected to determine the success of such a program?
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