DHI401/ DHI405 Module 9: Public Health Informatics and Disease Surveillance

Public healthcare requires timely, accurate information from multiple sources.

• The main focus of this field is the use of information facilitated by technology for

surveillance of public health, in particular disease control systems.

• Preventing disease via consistence surveillance and curbing spread of

diseases is the focus rather than treatment.

• Public health informatics often operates at public or government levels, rather

than at the private sector, in most countries as Universal Health Care is

followed.

• The scope includes the conceptualization, design, development, deployment,

refinement, maintenance, and evaluation of communication, surveillance, and

information systems relevant to public health.

• Population level monitoring – to prevent the negative impact of pandemics and

epidemics, the use of computerised global surveillance and data collection

systems such as Health Information Exchanges.

Please write two reflective journal on different module topics. Such as module 8 and module 9. Each reflective journal write 125 words and 3 references each module.

please see the attached assessment brief and module 8 and 9 file.