Data and Health Indicators in Public Health Practice Training

Introduction and Problem-Solving Methodology

In this module, we will introduce the problem solving methodology This methodology is a powerful tool that can useful when identifying a public health problem, building the case that there truly is a problem, suggesting interventions, and suggestions ways to evaluate the interventions and disseminate the findings of the evaluation

Data Sources in Public Health

In this module, we dive deeper into what lies at the heart of epidemiology: data! More specifically, we will look at routine and public health data systems

Measures of Disease Burden

In this module we will use data from routine and public health information systems to measure the burden of disease in the population We will calculate crude mortality rates, and then apply direct and indirect age standardization methods

Health Indicators

In this module, we’ll discuss health indicators, which are important measurements of the health of a population There are numerous health indicators that help us paint the picture of a populations health We’ll talk about characteristics of good health indicators to provide a little guidance on how to choose health indicators for the public health problem of interest Then, we’ll use the example of the health indicator of liver cancer incidence to explore descriptive epidemiology We will stratify liver cancer incidence by person, place, and time, to build our skills in descriptive epidemiology