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Truth matters? What a concept!

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Health Statistics
Shaping Policy and Practice to Improve the Population’s Health
Daniel J. Friedman, Edward L. Hunter and R. Gibson Parrish, eds.

Kaiser Family Foundation Vice President Larry Levitt co-authored (with Georgetown University’s Judy Feder) “Why Truth Matters: Health Statistics in Health Policy,” a chapter in a new book from Oxford University Press that explores the role of statistics in health reform debates in the U.S. The book, “Health Statistics: Shaping Policy and Practice to Improve the Population’s Health,” provides a comprehensive account of the concepts of health statistics.

Here’s the table of contents of the compilation.

Section 1: Defining Health Statistics: Context, History, and Organization
1. Health Statistics: Definition and Conceptual Framework
2. Health Statistics in Historical Perspective
3. The Health Statistics Enterprise
Section 2: Collecting and Compiling Health Statistics
4. Health Statistics from Notifications, Registration Systems, and Registries
5. Health Surveys
6. Administrative Health Data
7. Health Statistics from Non-Health Sources
8. Standards and Their Use in Health Statistics
9. Linking, Combining, and Disseminating Data for Understanding the Population’s Health
Section 3: Using Health Statistics
10. Using Health Statistics: From Data to Information to Knowledge
11. Why Truth Matters: Health Statistics in Health Policy
12. Health Statistics in Public Health Practice
Section 4: Identifying Current and Forthcoming Issues in Health Statistics
13. Population Health Monitoring
14. Privacy, Confidentiality, and Health Statistics
15. New Technologies, the Internet, and Health Statistics
16. Modeling Health — the Role of Simulation Models in 21st Century Health Information Systems
Section 5: Transforming Health Statistics through New Conceptual Frameworks
17. Recent Developments in Health Information: An International Perspective
18. From Health Statistics to Health Information Systems: A New Path for the 21st Century
19. Population Health: New Paradigms and Implications for Health Information
20. Health Statistics and the National Health Information Infrastructure: A View from the United States
Summing Up: Towards a 21st Century Vision for Health Statistics

Get it from the Oxford University Press.

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