PUB 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: National Health Interview Survey, American Community Survey, Public Health Informatics

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PUB 101
• Professor: Jessica Kruger

Document Summary

Pub health- ch 8: roles of public health. Detection of new health threats: ex: how int water crisis was found out- people rated themselves as having worse health because of the water. Planning of public health programs and evaluation of their success. Death certi cates: could be more or less accurate than birth certi cate. Noti able diseases: (usually infection)- *** know de nition and types discussed in class for the test: ex- sti"s *** From states to national center for health statistics (nchs is part of cdc). Nchs set up a computer system to link vital records of infants because infant mortality is an important public health issue. Nchs: means national center for health statistics ***remember*** Any baby who dies before 1 years old-> easy to determine this. Data collected at ub= lease accurate because usually taken from a small population. Serves as the denominator for most public health data: Is conducted every 10 years ***important to remember***