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?