Overview
- Describes methods to identify disparities in health status worldwide and to inform policies to redress these disparities.
- Explains the sources of data on which media base their headlines.
- Breaks down traditional disciplinary silos and collates disparate methods that build health information systems.
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Part II
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Reviews
“A rich and thoughtful set of chapters provides methods that can improve all aspects of health data nationally, regionally and globally. This handbook is both scientific and practical and is an essential tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for health.” (Ties Boerma, Professor, Centre for Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, Canada)
“In an era when modeled estimates of morbidity and mortality dominate the global health discourse, this remarkable book promotes high-quality national and sub-national data collection to produce reliable health statistics. Readers will find its methods essential to advance the unfinished agenda of achieving useful quality health data globally.” (Cesar Victora, Emeritus Professor, International Center for Equity in Health, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Carla AbouZahr is a senior technical adviser to the Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her career in global health includes over 20 years with the World Health Organization working with country and international partners to strengthen health information systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Global Health Data Methods for Policy and Practice
Editors: Sarah B. Macfarlane, Carla AbouZahr
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54984-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54983-9Published: 15 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54984-6Published: 05 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIV, 532
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour