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Public Health Informatics

Known as: Informatics, Public Health 
The systematic application of information and computer sciences to public health practice, research, and learning.
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2019
Review
2019
Public Health Informatics in Local and State Health Agencies: An Update From the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey
Objective: To characterize public health informatics (PHI) specialists and identify the informatics needs of the public health… 
2018
2018
Developing Workforce Capacity in Public Health Informatics: Core Competencies and Curriculum Design
We describe a master’s level public health informatics (PHI) curriculum to support workforce development. Public health decision… 
Review
2017
Review
2017
Informatics Metrics and Measures for a Smart Public Health Systems Approach: Information Science Perspective
Public health informatics is an evolving domain in which practices constantly change to meet the demands of a highly complex… 
Review
2014
Review
2014
Patterns and Correlates of Public Health Informatics Capacity Among Local Health Departments: An Empirical Typology
Objective: Little is known about the nationwide patterns in the use of public health informatics systems by local health… 
2012
2012
Beyond information access: Support for complex cognitive activities in public health informatics tools
Public health professionals work with a variety of information sources to carry out their everyday activities. In recent years… 
2012
2012
Gaps in the existing public health informatics training programs: a challenge to the development of a skilled global workforce.
The objective of this study was to explore public health informatics (PHI) training programs that currently exist to meet the… 
2011
2011
Why “What Data Are Necessary for This Project?” and Other Basic Questions are Important to Address in Public Health Informatics Practice and Research
Despite the likelihood of poor quality data flowing from clinical information systems to public health information systems… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Health and Biomedical Informatics: Opportunities and Challenges for a Twenty-First Century Profession and its Education
  • W. Hersh
  • Yearbook of Medical Informatics
  • 2008
  • Corpus ID: 18281101
Summary Objectives Characterize the health and biomedical informatics workforce, its professionalization, and its education… 
2006
2006
Informatics and public health at CDC.
Since CDC acquired its first mainframe computer in 1964, the use of information technology in public health practice has grown… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Current Issues in Health Care Informatics
Health care informatics has emerged as a diverse and important new field of study. The field can be very broadly defined as the… 
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