HLST 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Health Informatics, Public Health, Smoking Cessation

• School: York University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLST 2040
• Professor: Christo El Morr

Document Summary

A gis allows users to query data and display many layers of those days on a map: in canada, two institutions support the phi agenda. Institute for health information (cihi), which is the major canadian institution dealing with health data collection and analysis; the second is canada health. Infoway, which is the major contributor to the country"s health informatics infrastructure: the global public health intelligence network (gphin) was developed in. Canada in 1998 as a joint venture with the who and was formally launched at the. The global public health intelligence network (gphin) monitors global public health outbreaks and communicates its ndings to the global health community. Gphin is a secure, internet-based, real-time surveillance and early warning system that continuously collects unveri ed reports of potential public health concern and communicates them to the who and the global public health community, including governmental and non-governmental agencies.