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2 - Health Information

from Part 1 - The Public Health Toolkit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2023

By
John Battersby
Edited by
Kirsteen Watson ,
Jan Yates  and
Stephen Gillam
Kirsteen Watson
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Jan Yates
Affiliation:
NHS England and NHS Improvement
Stephen Gillam
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

To effectively target public health interventions for greatest impact, it is essential that public health practitioners have a clear understanding of the populations they work with. As described in Chapter 1, understanding these populations, their health status and health needs draws on skills from several disciplines, including demography, epidemiology and statistics. Brought together, these skills allow the practitioner to understand the characteristics of the population of interest, the key health issues that it faces and the broader factors that have a particular influence on the health of that population. These broader factors are generally referred to as the wider determinants of health or the social determinants of health. Information is also vital in allowing practitioners to assess the impact of public health interventions.

Keywords

Health informationIMD mortalitymorbiditymeasuressources of datademographypopulation projectionsstandardised ratesQALYinequalitiesstatistics
Type
Chapter
Information
Essential Public Health
Theory and Practice
 , pp. 27 - 46
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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