Health Advancement and Promotion
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Added on 2020-04-13
Health Advancement and Promotion
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Running head: HEALTH ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTIONPUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICSName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1HEALTH ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTIONContentsPublic Health Informatics:.........................................................................................................3Role of Public Health Informatics:........................................................................................4Challenges:.................................................................................................................................4Security and Ethical Concerns:..............................................................................................5Interoperability, Management and security of data................................................................5Maintaining privacy and confidentiality................................................................................6Need for skilled manpower:...................................................................................................6Solutions:....................................................................................................................................7Cryptographic and user authentication system......................................................................7Improving performance, shared governance and diversity of data........................................7Implementing structured data and standard formatting:........................................................8Automated data collection to improve interoperability and standardization:........................9Effective integration of data to avoid any error:..................................................................10References:...............................................................................................................................12
2HEALTH ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTIONPublic Health Informatics:Public health informatics can be understood as a sub domain of health informatics,that involves a systematic usage of computer technology, computer science and informaticsin the field of public health practice, learning and research (Introduction to Public HealthInformatics|Public Health 101 Series|CDC, 2017). This can be also applied in the fields ofsurveillance, preparedness, prevention and promoting healthy living, and facilitates thedevelopment and application of interoperable information systems to be utilized for publichealth activities like outbreak management and electronic laboratory reporting (Public HealthInformatics, 2017). The information systems aids healthcare by synthesizing the theory andpractices involved in the fields of information science, computer science, behavioural scienceand management sciences into tools and practices that can help healthcare, and can convert araw data into a usable format (PHII, 2017). Information allows analysis of diseases (chronicor infectious), and can be a resource, enabling monitoring and surveillance, prevention,community health assessment, and help in better decision making which are data driven. Italso allows a better understanding of public health status and identify any emergent threats topublic health (Haque, Dixon & Grannis, 2016).Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) is involved in a diverse array of activities todevelop the informatics capabilities in US and abroad, to improve healthcare standards. Theactivities include: Building, designing and maintaining immunization registries that canmaintain immunization status of more than 90% children in almost all the states. A tooldeveloped for the Mozambique Ministry of Health, that allows allocation of healthcareworkers in the most optimal way. Working with Emroy Global Health Institute and ChildHealth Mortality Prevention Surveyllance Network (CHAMPS) to determine the highestcauses of mortality in children below 5 years in developing countries (Liu et al., 2017).
3HEALTH ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTIONCreating videos, podcasts to raise awareness. Undertaking secondary analysis on topicsrelated to public health, and posting important key points and recommendations identifiedfrom those studies (PHII, 2017).Role of Public Health Informatics:Savel & Foldy (2012) pointed out that informatics can help healthcare and publichealth surveillance by facilitating different functions like: planning and designing of system(by identifying information sources that can address the surveillance objectives, identifyingthose who would need access to such information, improving the interaction of thesurveillance systems with other information systems thereby improving action and analysis);collection of data (identifying the various biases seen in different collection methods for data,identifying appropriate structuring of the data to ensure optimum quality of the data entered);management and collaboration of the collected data (identifying newer approaches in crossplatform and cross structural sharing of data, allowing linkage with legacy systems giving abackward compatibility, and maintaining data quality) ; data analysis (identifying properapplications for visualization and representation of data, having algorithms that can detectany aberrations, and using hi performance computational models); data interpretation(allowing the comparison of data from one surveillance system with other systems, to providenewer perspectives and context for the data); dissemination (recommending effectivemethods of data representation, intended audience for the data, and benefits of the data);application of key findings in public health programs and practices (by assessment of theusefulness of surveillance data being used in information systems to support public healthinterventions).Challenges:
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