Health Statistics: Shaping Policy and Practice to Improve the Population's Health Book

Section 1: Defining Health Statistics: Context, History, and Organization
1. Health Statistics: Definition and Conceptual Framework
2. Health Statistics in Historical Perspective
3. The Health Statistics Enterprise
Section 2: Collecting and Compiling Health Statistics
4. Health Statistics from Notifications, Registration Systems, and Registries
5. Health Surveys
6. Administrative Health Data
7. Health Statistics from Non-Health Sources
8. Standards and Their Use in Health Statistics
9. Linking, Combining, and Disseminating Data for Understanding the Population's Health
Section 3: Using Health Statistics
10. Using Health Statistics: From Data to Information to Knowledge
11. Why Truth Matters: Health Statistics in Health Policy
12. Health Statistics in Public Health Practice
Section 4: Identifying Current and Forthcoming Issues in Health Statistics
13. Population Health Monitoring
14. Privacy, Confidentiality, and Health Statistics
15. New Technologies, the Internet, and Health Statistics
16. Modeling Health — the Role of Simulation Models in 21st Century Health Information Systems
Section 5: Transforming Health Statistics through New Conceptual Frameworks
17. Recent Developments in Health Information: An International Perspective
18. From Health Statistics to Health Information Systems: A New Path for the 21st Century
19. Population Health: New Paradigms and Implications for Health Information Systems
20. Health Statistics and the National Health Information Infrastructure: A View from the United States
Summing Up: Towards a 21st Century Vision for Health Statistics
Index