Data linkage for public health research – the Fforestfach tyre fire

Administrative record linkage as a tool for public health research.

Linked administrative databases offer a powerful resource for studying important public health issues. Methods developed and implemented in several jurisdictions across the globe have achieved high-quality linkages for conducting health and social research without compromising confidentiality. Key data available for linkage include health services utilization, population registries, place of re...

Sharing Public Health Research Data

It is increasingly recognized that effective and appropriate data sharing requires the development of models of good datasharing practice capable of taking seriously both the potential benefits to be gained and the importance of ensuring that the rights and interests of participants are respected and that risk of harms is minimized. Calls for the greater sharing of individual-level data from bi...

Sharing research data to improve public health.

The purpose of medical research is to analyse and understand health and disease. A key and expensive element is the study of populations to explore how interactions between behaviour and environment, in the context of genetic diversity, determine causation and variation in health and disease. As funders of public health research, we need to ensure that research outputs are used to maxi mise kno...

Sharing Research Data to Improve Public Health

Commentary As a charitable research foundation, the Wellcome Trust is strongly committed to ensuring that the outputs of the research we support—including research publications and data—can be accessed and used in a manner that delivers the greatest possible benefit to global health. In common with other research funders around the world, we believe that many of the increasingly rich and comple...

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