Public Health Practice within a Health Information Exchange: Information Needs and Barriers to Disease Surveillance
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Public Health Practice within a Health Information Exchange: Information Needs and Barriers to Disease Surveillance
INTRODUCTION Public health professionals engage in frequent exchange of health information while pursuing the objectives of protecting and improving population health. Yet, there has been little study of the information work of public health workers with regard to information exchange. Our objective was to gain a better understanding of information work at a local health jurisdiction before and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1947-2579
DOI: 10.5210/ojphi.v4i3.4277