Public Health Informatics

Public Health Informatics

Public health informatics is the application of information science and technology to public health practices, medical research, and planning. The Internet plays a key role in the continued evolution of health informatics and is closely knit to the planning, development, and implementation of public health systems.

• Explain why the knowledge of traditional public health disciplines such as epidemiology, biostatistics, or toxicology, in itself, is insufficient to plan, develop, and implement information systems in public health practice. Support your answer with appropriate scholarly references.
• Identify and describe 3–5 variables that are necessary for a public health informatics data set. Support your answer with appropriate scholarly references.

Write your response in a minimum of 300–400 words, providing relevant references. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Why the knowledge of traditional public health disciplines is insufficient to plan, develop, and implement information systems in public health practice

According to World Health Organization, “epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations and the application of this study to the control of health problems.” It is a scientific discipline that has sound ways of scientific inquiry (Khoury & Ioannidis, 2014). It is information driven and depends on a systematic approach to the analysis, interpretation, and collection of data. Some epidemiology methods depend on keen observation and the application of valid comparison teams to assess if the previous view which includes the cases of the disease in a specific area in a particular time, or the frequency of disease exposure among the population differs from the expected result………….

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