HM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Electronic Health Record, Public Health Informatics, Health Informatics

• School: MSU
• Department: Human Medicine, College Course
• Course: HM 101
• Professor: P.Lambert

Document Summary

Introduction to module 3 public health data and. In this module we will focus on public health data and health communications. These are very broad topics -- you could have entire courses about them. Health informatics falls under the core disciplines of biostatistics and epidemiology, and health communications falls under social and behavioral health and includes methods of collecting, compiling and presenting health information and different types of public health data. Health communications can include interpersonal communication about health, and health communication about health issues to the public. In this module we will focus on public health informatics (phi) and electronic health records. Public health data is a form of health information. Your text presents the 6 different types of public health data as the six "s"s" to help you remember them: single case or small series, statistics, surveys, self-reporting, sentinel monitoring, syndromic surveillance.