Community health assessment: Driving the need for current, easily accessible population health data

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 113-118

  Irani, Priti ^a   Bohn, Cate ^a   Halasan, Corazon ^b   Landen, Mike ^b   McCusker, Dawn ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Data; Planning; Policy; Web based data query

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; POLITICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNET;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645727985     PISSN: 10784659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00124784-200603000-00002     Document Type: Review

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