Health Sciences 2045A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Health Policy, Personalized Medicine, Economic Evaluation
17 Oct 2016
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Organization of health care- tracking, monitoring and improving. Cultural, spatial and historical view of health. Health policy and health issues (and how to analyze) Development of canada"s institutional arrangements for health care (e. g. important laws/policies, personalities, perspectives) There is more to health data than an electronic health record! (although, it really does start with stable, reliable data holdings) Health problems related to poor diet, drinking & smoking are costing the nhs more than. 11 billion pounds each year a lot of health info is broadcasted through media. 4/10 million middle aged ppl have long term condition w no cure. We have always had health data, but it was either: disparate, hard to analyze, not timely, data quality was poor. Models of treatment delivery are rapidly changing; many of the decisions behind those changes are being driven by data. Data use and analysis is no longer the sole responsibility of data departments .
