Epistemis

Public Health: Health Demography and Information Systems — High Specialty Treaty

Public Health and Epidemiology · Clinical Bases

How it begins

Un compendio analítico de nivel experto sobre las dinámicas de población, modelización matemática de la mortalidad, arquitectura avanzada de sistemas de información clínica, interoperabilidad semántica y metodologías cuantitativas para el análisis de la carga global de enfermedad.

What it covers

  1. Introduction to Health Demography and its Intersection with Public Health
  2. Demographic Data Sources: Censuses, Registers and Surveys
  3. Population Structure, Demographic Pyramids and Dependency Indices
  4. · Demographic Structure Indicators
  5. Population Dynamics: Birth, Fertility and Reproduction
  6. The Demographic Transition and the Epidemiological Transition: Theory and Modeling
  7. · 1. The Theory of Demographic Transition (Landry, Notestein)
  8. · 2. The Theory of Epidemiological Transition (Abdel Omran)
  9. Infant, Maternal and Perinatal Mortality: Sensitive Health and Development Indicators
  10. · Analytical Structure of Mortality in the First Year of Life
  11. · Maternal Mortality
  12. Life Expectancy and Mortality Tables (Life Tables): Mathematical Foundation
  13. · Fundamental Functions of the Mortality Table
  14. Standardization of Rates: Adjustment for Age through Direct and Indirect Methods
  15. Migratory Dynamics and their Epidemiological Impact on Collective Health
  16. Mathematical Models of Population Projection: Strategic Planning
  17. Health Information Systems (SIS): Architecture, Data Flow and Infrastructure
  18. · SIS Technological Architecture
  19. The Minimum Basic Data Set (MBDS) and International Classifications
  20. · Evolution of the International Classifications of Diseases (ICD)
  21. Notification Systems for Notifiable Diseases (EDO)
  22. Population-Based Disease Registries: Cancer and Heart Disease
  23. · Population-Based Cancer Registries (RCBP)
  24. · Records of Heart Disease and Critical Ischemic Events
  25. Shared Medical History and Semantic Interoperability: HL7 and FHIR
  26. · The FHIR Standard (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)
  27. Typology and Quality Attributes of Health Indicators
  28. Measuring the Global Burden of Disease: The Concept of DALY/DALY
  29. Health Inequalities and Socioeconomic Indicators of Deprivation
  30. Evaluation of the Performance and Efficiency of Health Systems
  31. Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Contemporary Epidemiology
  32. Epidemiological Surveillance: Active, Passive and Sentinel Methods
  33. · Sentinel Surveillance Systems
  34. Epidemic Outbreak Investigation and Mathematical Modeling SIR / SEIR
  35. · Compartmental Mathematical Modeling: The SIR / SEIR Model
  36. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Public Health and Spatial Epidemiology
  37. The International Health Regulations (IHR) and Global Alert Management
  38. The Demographic Challenge of Aging and the Burden of Multimorbidity
  39. Climate Change, Environmental Migrations and New Global Health Profiles
  40. Information Security, Health Data Privacy and the GDPR Framework
  41. Towards Precision Public Health: Governance and Data Integration Challenges

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Subject
Public Health and Epidemiology
Category
Clinical Bases
Type
Study Guide
Sections
41
Reviewed
2026-08-02
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