Commercial in confidence: public health without confidence

Commercial in confidence: public health without confidence.

Implementing public health measures with obvious benefits becomes a complex struggle when commercial interests are paramount T he evening of 25 March 2009 was cool for the community consultation — a necessary step before the implementation of fluoridation of the Cobram water supply. There were only a few people present in the Civic Centre, but they warmly applauded the initiative. None of the e...

Confidence Intervals in Public Health

When public health practitioners use health statistics, sometimes they are interested in the actual number of health events, but more often they use the statistics to assess the true underlying risk of a health problem in the community. Observed health statistics, that is, those counts, rates or percentages that are computed or estimated from health surveys, vital statistics registries, or othe...

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Recognising and gathering relevant data is often a very time-consuming part of an expert's work. Databases can make the necessary information available, but current access methods require database skills which few experts have. Bridging this gap between experts and the information they require can greatly improve the experts' eeectiveness. This paper describes a system which uses knowledge-base...

Holmesglen Commercial in Confidence Course

Parameter estimation without confidence intervals?

We greatly appreciate the comments contributed by one of the peer reviewers. Apparently, his comments have clearly sorted out the limitations our article involves. We recognize all the limitations and still, we believe the Diagnosis Procedure Combination (DPC) system in Japan is worth being aware of as a novel medical database in Asia. As for the first point, the DPC database only involves 65.1...