Authors: Yannick Neunzig Guegan, Patrick W. O'Carroll, William A. Yasnoff
ISBN-13: 9780387954745, ISBN-10: 0387954740
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
This book covers all aspects of public health informatics and discusses the creation and management of an information technology infrastructure that is essential in linking state and local organizations in their efforts to gather data for the surveillance and prevention. Public health officials will have to understand basic principles of information resource management in order to make the appropriate technology choices that will guide the future of their organizations. As the major topic at the American Medical Informatics Association's (AMIA) spring congress in 2001, public health has moved into the spotlight, given the importance of implementing a population-based health approach and to addressing chronic health conditions. This book marks the first systematic effort to provide informatics principles and examples of practice in a public health context. In doing so, it clarifies the ways in which newer information technologies will improve individual and community health status. This book's primary purpose is to consolidate key information and promote a strategic approach to information systems and development, making it a resource for use by faculty and students of public health, as well as the practicing public health professional.
Chapter highights include: The Governmental and Legislative Context of Informatics; Assessing the Value of Information Systems; Ethics, Information Technology, and Public Health; and Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security. Review questions are featured at the end of every chapter. Aside from its use for public health professionals, the book will be used by schools of public health, clinical and public health nurses and students, schools of social work, allied health, and environmental sciences. Drs. O'Carroll and Yasnoff are public health specialists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Foreword | ||
Series Preface | ||
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Contributors | ||
Pt. I | The Context for Public Health Informatics | |
Ch. 1 | Introduction to Public Health Informatics | 3 |
Ch. 2 | History and Significance of Information Systems and Public Health | 16 |
Ch. 3 | Better Health Through Informatics: Managing Information to Deliver Value | 39 |
Ch. 4 | The Governmental and Legislative Context of Informatics | 52 |
Pt. II | The Science of Public Health Informatics | |
Ch. 5 | Information Architecture | 85 |
Ch. 6 | Core Competencies in Public Health Informatics | 98 |
Ch. 7 | Assessing the Value of Information Systems | 114 |
Ch. 8 | Managing IT Personnel and Projects | 159 |
Ch. 9 | Public Health Informatics and Organizational Change | 179 |
Ch. 10 | Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security of Public Health Information | 199 |
Ch. 11 | Data Standards in Public Health Informatics | 213 |
Ch. 12 | Evaluation for Public Health Informatics | 239 |
Ch. 13 | Ethics, Information Technology, and Public Health: Duties and Challenges in Computational Epidemiology | 251 |
Pt. III | Key Public Health Information Systems | |
Ch. 14 | The National Vital Statistics System | 269 |
Ch. 15 | Morbidity Data | 286 |
Ch. 16 | Risk Factor Information Systems | 316 |
Ch. 17 | Informatics of Toxicology and Environmental Public Health | 335 |
Ch. 18 | Knowledge-Based Information and Systems | 352 |
Pt. IV | New Challenges, Emerging Systems | |
Ch. 19 | New Means of Data Collection | 379 |
Ch. 20 | New Means for Increasing Data Accessibility | 408 |
Ch. 21 | Geographic Information Systems | 431 |
Ch. 22 | Immunization Registries: Critical Tools for Sustaining Success | 467 |
Ch. 23 | Decision Support and Expert Systems in Public Health | 494 |
Ch. 24 | Promoting the Delivery of Preventive Medicine in Primary Care | 513 |
Pt. V | Case Studies: Applications of Information Systems Development | |
Ch. 25 | Policy Issues in Developing Information Systems for Public Health Surveillance of Communicable Diseases | 537 |
Ch. 26 | Networking/Connecting People in a Sustainable Way: Information Network for Public Health Officials | 574 |
Ch. 27 | The Community Health Information Movement: Where It's Been, Where It's Going | 595 |
Ch. 28 | Developing the Missouri Integrated Public Health Information System | 617 |
Ch. 29 | Using Information Systems to Build Capacity: A Public Health Improvement Tool Box | 644 |
Ch. 30 | Using Data to Meet a Policy Objective: Community Health Assessment Practice with the CATCH Data Warehouse | 661 |
Ch. 31 | International Networking: Addressing the Challenge of Emerging Infections | 683 |
Ch. 32 | Case Study: An Immunization Data Collection System for Private Providers | 693 |
Ch. 33 | Public Health Informatics in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey | 712 |
Ch. 34 | Epilogue: The Future of Public Health Informatics | 743 |
Index | 749 |