Health statistics : shaping policy and practice to improve the population's health

PART 1: DEFINING HEALTH STATISTICS: CONTEXT, HISTORY, AND ORGANIZATION 1. Defining health statistics and their scope 2. Health statistics in historical perspective 3. The health statistics enterprise PART 2: COLLECTING AND COMPILING HEALTH STATISTICS 4. Health statistics from notifications, registration systems, and registries 5. Health surveys: a resource to inform health policy and practice 6. Administrative health data 7. Health statistics from nonhealth sources 8. Standards and their use in health statistics 9. Linking and combining data to develop statistics for understanding the population's health PART 3: USING HEALTH STATISTICS 10. Health statistics and knowledge creation 11. Why truth matters: the role of health statistics in health policy 12. Health statistics in public health practice PART 4: IDENTIFYING CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING ISSUES IN HEALTH STATISTICS 13. Population health monitoring 14. Privacy, confidentiality, and health statistics 15. New technologies and health statistics 16. Modeling health: the role of simulation models in health information systems PART 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 systems 20. The national health information infrastructure 21. Summing up: towards a 21st Century vision for health statistics