MAPPING HEALTH: HOW DANES EXPERIENCE THEIR DIGITAL HEALTH DATA

How to integrate social care services into primary health care? An experience from Iran

Background: Social issues have prominent effects on the peoples' physical and mental health and on the health risk factors. In Iran, many organizations provide social care services to their target population. This study aimed to explore the roles and functions of Primary Health Care (PHC) system in providing social care services in Iran.   Methods: This was a qualitative study, for whic...

Mapping Health Statistics: Representing Data Reliability

Data reliability is a major concern for both science and policy analysis. Methods of specifying the reliability of sample data, the variance around measures of central tendency, the confidence we should put in statistical summaries, etc. are well developed. When data are geo referenced, however, reliability estimates have not traditionally been mapped. For the same reasons that we map spatial d...

Consumption in out-of-hours health care: Danes double Dutch?

OBJECTIVE To study the quantitative consumption in out-of-hours (OOH) primary care in Denmark and the Netherlands, in the context of OOH care services. DESIGN A retrospective observational study describing contacts with OOH care services, using registration data. SETTING OOH care services (i.e. OOH primary care, emergency department, and ambulance care) in one Danish and one Dutch region. ...

How Should Health Data Be Used?

Electronic health records, data sharing, big data, data mining, and secondary use are enabling exciting opportunities for improving health and healthcare while also exacerbating privacy concerns. Two court cases about selling prescription data, the Sorrell case in the U.S. and the Source case in the U.K., raise questions of what constitutes "privacy" and "public interest"; they present an oppor...

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