PUBLIC HEALTH & INFORMATICS
Public's right vs. Individual right
INTRO
Objectives:
Background information
Pros
Cons
Legal, social & ethical issues
Current Case
BACKGROUND
Background
History of Public Health & Informatics
What is Public Health
PUBLIC HEALTH
Public health is an area of healthcare that emerged as a form of protection not only for just the individual but of the community also
Physical environment
- Drinking water
- Sewerage systems
Social factors
- housing, income, educational level, transportation availability, and health care
What is Health Informatics?
“the integration of health information science, and cognitive science to assist in the management of healthcare information” (Sweeney, 2017)
OUTBREAKS
- THE BLACK DEATH (1346-1353)
Death Toll: 75 – 200 million
Cause: Bubonic Plague
Death Toll: 1 million
Cause: Influenza
- HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC (AT ITS PEAK, 2005-2012)
Death Toll: 36 million
Cause: HIV/AIDS
- COVID-19 (THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS)
Beginning in December 2019
Measles and Rubella Surveillance Data, WHO, 2020
Population Health Improvement
Population Health
- Advanced Population Health Management
- Performance improvement outcomes
- Improvement of clinical medicine
Distilinfo healthplan, 2017
Legal, social & ethical issues
Legal: HIPAA
Social: Media
Ethical: Trust
Current Case
Current Case
"The Public’s Right to Know about the President’s Health vs. the President’s Right to Medical Confidentiality"
References
- Dershowitz, A. M. (2020, October 7). The public's right to know about the President's health vs. the President's right to medical confidentiality . Retrieved from jewishpress.com: https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/the-publics-right-to-know-about-the-presidents-health-vs-the-presidents-right-to-medical-confidentiality/2020/10/07/
- Distilinfo healthplan. 2017. The most important healthcare data for population health management . https://www.distilnfo.com/payer/2017/06/12/population-health-management/
- Harman, L. B., & Cornelius, F. H. (2017). Ethical health informatics: challenges and opportunties (3rd ed). Burlington, ma: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
- Kloss, L., Brodnik, M., & Rinehart-Thompson, L. (2018). Access and disclousure of personal health information: a challenging privacy landscape in 2016-2018. Yearbook of medical informatics , 60-66.
- Molster, C. M., Bowman, F. L., Bilkney, G. A., Cho, A. S., Burns, B. L., Nowak, K. J., & Dawkins, H. J. (2018, September 04). The evolution of public health genomics: exploring its past, present, and future. Frontiers in public health, 6(247). doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00247
- Sweeney, J. (2017, February 2). Healthcare Informatics. Retrieved from himss.org : https://www.himss.org/resources/healthcare-informatics
- World Health Organization. 2020. Measles and Rubella Surveillance Data. https://www.who.int/immunization/monitoring_surveillance/burden/vpd/surveillance_type/active/measles_monthlydata/en/