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
- Introduction to Health Demography and its Intersection with Public Health
- Demographic Data Sources: Censuses, Registers and Surveys
- Population Structure, Demographic Pyramids and Dependency Indices
- · Demographic Structure Indicators
- Population Dynamics: Birth, Fertility and Reproduction
- The Demographic Transition and the Epidemiological Transition: Theory and Modeling
- · 1. The Theory of Demographic Transition (Landry, Notestein)
- · 2. The Theory of Epidemiological Transition (Abdel Omran)
- Infant, Maternal and Perinatal Mortality: Sensitive Health and Development Indicators
- · Analytical Structure of Mortality in the First Year of Life
- · Maternal Mortality
- Life Expectancy and Mortality Tables (Life Tables): Mathematical Foundation
- · Fundamental Functions of the Mortality Table
- Standardization of Rates: Adjustment for Age through Direct and Indirect Methods
- Migratory Dynamics and their Epidemiological Impact on Collective Health
- Mathematical Models of Population Projection: Strategic Planning
- Health Information Systems (SIS): Architecture, Data Flow and Infrastructure
- · SIS Technological Architecture
- The Minimum Basic Data Set (MBDS) and International Classifications
- · Evolution of the International Classifications of Diseases (ICD)
- Notification Systems for Notifiable Diseases (EDO)
- Population-Based Disease Registries: Cancer and Heart Disease
- · Population-Based Cancer Registries (RCBP)
- · Records of Heart Disease and Critical Ischemic Events
- Shared Medical History and Semantic Interoperability: HL7 and FHIR
- · The FHIR Standard (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)
- Typology and Quality Attributes of Health Indicators
- Measuring the Global Burden of Disease: The Concept of DALY/DALY
- Health Inequalities and Socioeconomic Indicators of Deprivation
- Evaluation of the Performance and Efficiency of Health Systems
- Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Contemporary Epidemiology
- Epidemiological Surveillance: Active, Passive and Sentinel Methods
- · Sentinel Surveillance Systems
- Epidemic Outbreak Investigation and Mathematical Modeling SIR / SEIR
- · Compartmental Mathematical Modeling: The SIR / SEIR Model
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Public Health and Spatial Epidemiology
- The International Health Regulations (IHR) and Global Alert Management
- The Demographic Challenge of Aging and the Burden of Multimorbidity
- Climate Change, Environmental Migrations and New Global Health Profiles
- Information Security, Health Data Privacy and the GDPR Framework
- 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