Public Health: Health Demography and Information Systems — High Specialty Treaty

Public Health and Epidemiology · Clinical Bases

How it begins

An expert-level analytical compendium on population dynamics, mathematical modeling of mortality, advanced architecture of clinical information systems, semantic interoperability and quantitative methodologies for the analysis of the global burden of disease.

What it covers

1. Introduction to Health Demography and its Intersection with Public Health
2. Demographic Data Sources: Censuses, Registers and Surveys
3. Population Structure, Demographic Pyramids and Dependency Indices
4. · Demographic Structure Indicators
5. Population Dynamics: Birth, Fertility and Reproduction
6. The Demographic Transition and the Epidemiological Transition: Theory and Modeling
7. · 1. The Theory of Demographic Transition (Landry, Notestein)
8. · 2. The Theory of Epidemiological Transition (Abdel Omran)
9. Infant, Maternal and Perinatal Mortality: Sensitive Health and Development Indicators
10. · Analytical Structure of Mortality in the First Year of Life
11. · Maternal Mortality
12. Life Expectancy and Mortality Tables (Life Tables): Mathematical Foundation
13. · Fundamental Functions of the Mortality Table
14. Standardization of Rates: Adjustment for Age through Direct and Indirect Methods
15. Migratory Dynamics and their Epidemiological Impact on Collective Health
16. Mathematical Models of Population Projection: Strategic Planning
17. Health Information Systems (SIS): Architecture, Data Flow and Infrastructure
18. · SIS Technological Architecture
19. The Minimum Basic Data Set (MBDS) and International Classifications
20. · Evolution of the International Classifications of Diseases (ICD)
21. Notification Systems for Notifiable Diseases (EDO)
22. Population-Based Disease Registries: Cancer and Heart Disease
23. · Population-Based Cancer Registries (RCBP)
24. · Records of Heart Disease and Critical Ischemic Events
25. Shared Medical History and Semantic Interoperability: HL7 and FHIR
26. · The FHIR Standard (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)
27. Typology and Quality Attributes of Health Indicators
28. Measuring the Global Burden of Disease: The Concept of DALY/DALY
29. Health Inequalities and Socioeconomic Indicators of Deprivation
30. Evaluation of the Performance and Efficiency of Health Systems
31. Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Contemporary Epidemiology
32. Epidemiological Surveillance: Active, Passive and Sentinel Methods
33. · Sentinel Surveillance Systems
34. Epidemic Outbreak Investigation and Mathematical Modeling SIR / SEIR
35. · Compartmental Mathematical Modeling: The SIR / SEIR Model
36. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Public Health and Spatial Epidemiology
37. The International Health Regulations (IHR) and Global Alert Management
38. The Demographic Challenge of Aging and the Burden of Multimorbidity
39. Climate Change, Environmental Migrations and New Global Health Profiles
40. Information Security, Health Data Privacy and the GDPR Framework
41. Towards Precision Public Health: Governance and Data Integration Challenges