Establishing a population data-based policy unit

Medical Care

Volumn 37, Issue 6 SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages

  Roos, Noralou P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data sets; Health status; Information system; Population based health information; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

CANADA; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANITOBA; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033142949     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199906001-00006     Document Type: Article

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