This book is a comprehensive text about all aspects of public health informatics and information technology. This books emphasizes the essential role that public health informatics plays in implementing a population-based health approach and to addressing chronic health conditions. This book is intended for public health specialists, nurses, medical informaticians, information technology professionals, and family physicians.

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Inhalt
The Context for Public Health Informatics.- to Public Health Informatics.- History and Significance of Information Systems and Public Health.- Better Health Through Informatics: Managing Information to Deliver Value.- The Governmental and Legislative Context of Informatics.- The Science of Public Health Informatics.- Information Architecture.- Core Competencies in Public Health Informatics.- Assessing the Value of Information Systems.- Managing IT Personnel and Projects.- Public Health Informatics and Organizational Change.- Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security of Public Health Information.- Data Standards in Public Health Informatics.- Evaluation for Public Health Informatics.- Ethics, Information Technology, and Public Health: Duties and Challenges in Computational Epidemiology.- Key Public Health Information Systems.- The National Vital Statistics System.- Morbidity Data.- Risk Factor Information Systems.- Informatics in Toxicology and Environmental Public Health.- Knowledge-Based Information and Systems.- New Challenges, Emerging Systems.- New Means of Data Collection.- New Means for Increasing Data Accessibility.- Geographic Information Systems.- Immunization Registries: Critical Tools for Sustaining Success.- Decision Support and Expert Systems in Public Health.- Promoting the Delivery of Preventive Medicine in Primary Care.- Case Studies: Applications of Information Systems Development.- Policy Issues in Developing Information Systems for Public Health Surveillance of Communicable Diseases.- Networking/Connecting People in a Sustainable Way: Information Network for Public Health Officials.- The Community Health Information Movement: Where It's Been, Where It's Going.- Developing the Missouri Integrated Public Health Information System.- Using InformationSystems to Build Capacity: A Public Health Improvement Tool Box.- Using Data to Meet a Policy Objective: Community Health Assessment Practice with the CATCH Data Warehouse.- International Networking: Addressing the Challenge of Emerging Infections.- Case Study: An Immunization Data Collection System for Private Providers.- Public Health Informatics in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.- Epilogue: The Future of Public Health Informatics.