Public Health Informatics

• Titel: Public Health Informatics
• Titelzusatz: Implementation and Governance in Resource-Limited Settings
• Mitwirkende: Gashu, Kassahun Dessie [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Mekonnen, Zeleke Abebaw [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Chanyalew, Moges Asressie [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Guadie, Habtamu Alganeh [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Kassahun Dessie Gashu, Zeleke Abebaw Mekonnen, Moges Asressie Chanyalew, Habtamu Alganeh Guadie
• Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2024.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Verlag: Imprint: Springer
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: 2024.
• Jahr: 2024.
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 264 p. 25 illus., 23 illus. in color.)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Sustainable Development Goals Series
• ISBN: 978-3-031-71118-3
• DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-031-71118-3
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
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• Lokale URL UB: Bibliothek der Medizinischen Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg
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Abstract

ICT and its role in health development -- Public health informatics An overview -- Data analytics and public health -- Groundworks and major initiatives of public health informatics -- Implementation status of public health informatics -- Leadership and governance of public health informatics -- Ethics in public health informatics.

Abstract

Digital health is becoming a key solution to improve access and quality healthcare delivery through overcompensating geographical barriers and facilitating evidence-based decision-making. Big data, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, machine learning and other technologies are playing an enormous role in the advancement of public health. Public health informatics is an emerging concept becoming to improve access and quality as well as reduce catastrophic health expenditure. Public Health Informatics: Implementation and Governance in Resource-Limited Settings is designed to provide insight for public health practitioners, technologists and healthcare workers to the use of digital technologies in public health especially those based in otherwise resource-limited settings. It is therefore vital reading for stakeholders who strive to set policy, guidelines and establish infrastructures to reduce the digital-divide in healthcare delivery.