IDSB04H3 Chapter 5: Chapter 5
7 Dec 2010
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Chapter 5: data and health: health related information, and knowing how to obtain it, is essential to taking action to improve health, health data play a vital role in helping to identify needs and shape solutions. Countries have limited data collection capacity at a national or sub national levels, leaving policy makers to rely on extrapolations of older data or data from other countries. However, data costs money and the higher quality it is the more it costs. Therefore in general where disease occurrence is highest, the numbers are least trustworthy. Assumptions related to health data: www. notesolution. com: the use of health statistics rests on two assumptions: Disease and death are medicalized processes that should be certified by trained medical practitioners and publicly recorded, tabulated and gauged over time. It is agreed upon that disease classifications process universally applied by doctors through common diagnostic procedures.
