BookJ.A. Magnuson, Paul C. Fu, Jr., editors.
Contents:
Part I. Context for Public Health Informatics
1. Introduction to Public Health Informatics / J.A. Magnuson and Patrick W. O'Carroll
2. History and Significance of Information Systems and Public Health / John R. Lumpkin and J.A. Magnuson
3. Context and Value of Biomedical and Health Informatics / William R. Hersh
4. Governmental and Legislative Context of Informatics / Margo Edmunds
Part II. The Science of Public Health Informatics
5. Public Health Informatics Infrastructure / Brian E. Dixon and Shaun J. Grannis
6. Information Architecture / Dina Dickerson and Patricia Yao
7. Data Sources and Data Tools / Edward Mensah and Johanna L. Goderre
8. Public Health Information Standards / J.A. Magnuson, Riki Merrick, and James T. Case
9. Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security of Public Health Information / William A. Yasnoff
10. Electronic Health Records / Stephen P. Julien
11. Ethics, Information Technology, and Public Health: Duties and Challenges in Computational Epidemiology / Kenneth W. Goodman and Eric M. Meslin
12. Project Management and Public Health Informatics / James Aspevig
13. Evaluation for Public Health Informatics / Paul C. Fu, Jr., Herman Tolentino, and Laura H. Franzke
Part III. Key Public Health Information Systems
14. Informatics in Disease Prevention and Epidemiology / Richard S. Hopkins and J.A. Magnuson
15. Informatics in Toxicology and Environmental Public Health / Edwin M. Kilbourne
16. Public Health Laboratories / Riki Merrick, Steven H. Hinrichs, and Michelle Meigs
17. The National Vital Statistics System / Charles J. Rothwell, Mary Anne Freedman, and James A. Weed
18. Risk Factor Information Systems / Alan Tomines
19. Setting national Policies and Standards for Immunization Information Systems / Nedra Y. Garrett
Part IV. New Challenges and Emerging Solutions
20. New Means of Data Collection and Accessibility / I. Charie Faught, James Aspevig, and Rita Spear
21. Geographic Information Systems / Carol L. Hanchette
22. Public Health Informatics and Health Information Exchange / J.A. Magnuson and Paul C. Fu, Jr.
23. Decision Support and Expert Systems in Public Health / William A. Yasnoff and Perry L. Miller
24. Delivery of Preventive Medicine in Primary Care / Paul C. Fu, Jr., Alan Tomines, and Larry L. Dickey
25. Case-Based Learning in Public Health Informatics / Herman Tolentino, Sridhar R. Papagari Sangareddy, Catherine Pepper, and J.A. Magnuson
Part V. Case Studies: Information Systems and the Strata of Public Health
26. Local and Regional Public Health Informatics / Jeffrey M. Kriseman and Brian J. Labus
27. Public Health Informatics in High Population States: New York and Ohio / Geraldine S. Johnson, Guthrie S. Birkhead, Rachel Block, Shannon Kelley, James Coates, Bob Campbell, and Brian Fowler
28. State Public Health Informatics: Perspective from a Low Population State / James Aspevig
29. National Public Health Informatics, United States / Seth Foldy
30. Public Health Informatics in Canada / Lawrence E. Frisch, Elizabeth M. Borycki, Alyse Capron, Abla Mawudeku, and Ronald St. John
31. Perspectives on Global Public Health Informatics / Janise Richards, Gerry Douglas, and Hamish S.F. Fraser
Part VI. Epilogue
32. Public Health Informatics: The Path Forward / J.A. Magnuson.