HLTC21H3 Lecture Notes - Eurostat, Canada Health Infoway, Airbag
23 Oct 2012
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From the manual, go to online tool, go over the modules to get familiar with, not a medical professional and not for coding; get familiar with the concepts. Icd-10 (most current: classification of mental disorders, classification of injuries, disease surveillance. Main reasons why we classify diseases: 1) to alert health authorities to the emergence of a health problem. How do we evaluate it to make it better: 3) to allocate resources; need to know what we"re dealing with, the frequency, is it decreasing/increasing; need to allocate appropriate resources (health care workers, programs, hospitals) Facilities for treatment and prevention: 4) to inform on where funds need to be used in the most useful way. Now, we"ve moved more away from funding infectious diseases to more funding towards chronic diseases. But there are also advocates that say there are newly emerging infectious disease b/c of resistance, anti-biotics; so need funding for that.
