Public health informatics : designing for change - a developing country perspective / Sundeep Sahay, T. Sundararaman, Jørn Braa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sahay, Sundeep, author.

Sundararaman, T., author.

Braa, Jørn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical informatics.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations, tables

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This work challenges in the design, development, and implementation of health information systems, particularly in low and middle income countries, and examines approaches to addressing these.

Contents:

Public health informatics : position within an informatic framework

Understanding public health informatics in context of health in low and middle-income countries

The "information-use problematic" in health information systems

The challenge of integration : (in)adequacy of technical solutions to institutional challenges

Decentralized information use : the the cloud and big data supporting this?

Institutions as barriers and facilitators of health information systems reform

Complexity and public health informatics in low and middle-income countries

Measuring progress toward universal health coverage and post-2015 sustainable development goals : the informational challenges

Health information systems governance and standard the challenges of implementation

Strengthening healthcare systems and health information systems : building synergies.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-107654-6

0-19-181866-6

0-19-107653-8