TRN125Y1 Lecture Notes - Canada Health Infoway, National Health Service, Eurostat
2 May 2013
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These are the 5 main purposes for disease classification; other purposes may fall w/in these categories or add onto these categories. *main reasons why we classify diseases:: (1) to alert to the emergence of a health problem. Example: if a health official reads that there"s an increase in # of cases of sars (etc;) something needs to be done about it: (2) to assist in planning, operations, or evaluation. Allows people to place things into perspective for the future. 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, money, etc. ) Example: facilities for treatment and prevention of stds: (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.
