The Palgrave Handbook of Global Health Data Methods for Policy and Practice

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Macfarlane, Sarah B. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), AbouZahr, Carla (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Medical policy.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Health Policy.

This handbook compiles methods for gathering, organizing and disseminating data to inform policy and manage health systems worldwide. Contributing authors describe national and international structures for generating data and explain the relevance of ethics, policy, epidemiology, health economics, d...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• Foreword
• Part I Global Health Data for Policy and Practice
• 1 National Health Systems for Generating and Managing Data for Health
• 2 Indicators for Monitoring Health Targets
• 3 Challenges in Shaping Health Policy with Data
• 4 Challenges in Shaping Health Programmes with Data
• 5 Measure, Inform, Build: Enabling Data-Driven Government Policymaking
• Part II Major Sources of Global Health Data
• 6 The Population Census: Counting People because They Count
• 7 Civil Registration and Vital Statistics: A Unique Source of Data for Policy
• 8 National Household Surveys: Collecting Data Where People Live
• 9 Health Management Information Systems: Backbone of the Health System
• 10 Public Health Surveillance: A Vital Alert and Response Function
• Part III Specialised Systems for Global Health Data
• 11 Tracking Health Resources Using National Health Accounts
• 12 Data to Monitor and Manage the Health Workforce
• 13 Mortality Data in Service of Conflict-Affected Populations
• 14 Climate Matters in Health Decision-Making
• 15 Advancing Health Policy Using a Geographic Approach
• Part IV Methods for Collecting and Analyzing Global Health Data
• 16 Seeking Insight: Using Qualitative Data for Policymaking
• 17 Describing Dynamic Populations: Demographic Data Methods
• 18 Epidemiology for Policy and Programme Management
• 19 Health Economics: Tools to Measure and Maximize Programme Impact
• 20 Tracking Health Outcomes in Space and Time: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Methods
• 21 Global Health Estimates: Modelling and Predicting Health Outcomes
• Part V Principles and Policies for Managing Global Health Data
• 22 A Matter of Trust: Data Quality and Information Integrity
• 23 Opening Data for Global Health
• 24 Principles and Ethics of Collecting and Managing Health Data
• 25 Global Health Data: An Unfinished Agenda
• Index.