Data dictionaries - What do they have to do with Public Health?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 286-287

  Egana, Nilva ^a,b   Bruinsma, Fiona ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b La Trobe University ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Health expenditures; Informatics; Public health databases as topic; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SERVICE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION;

DICTIONARIES AS TOPIC; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 47249105989     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2008.00231.x     Document Type: Article

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