WHO Health EDRM Research Network and Health Data Management

EDRM: A Unified Approach for Enterprise Data Resource Management

Data resource always plays the key role in modern enterprise applications. In the paper, we first give a detailed introduction of the existing data resource management approaches. Via the analysis and comparison of the existing apprpaches, a new unified framework for enterprise data resource management is proposed. The framework can encapsulate the heterogeneous data resources in a universal fo...

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Community Health Needs Assessments: Filling Data Gaps for Population Health Research and Management

INTRODUCTION Community health needs assessments (CHNA) are completed to meet varied regulatory and statutory requirements for local public health departments, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) hospitals, and Federally Qualified Health Centers. Although compliance is a motivating factor, these entities are committed to understanding the communities they serve and to developing strategies to address health ne...

Does Management Really Matter? And If so, to Who?; Comment on “Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health”

The editorial is commendable and I agree with many of the points raised. Management is an important aspect of health system strengthening which is often overlooked. In order to build the capacity of management, we need to consider other factors such as, the environment within which managers work, their numbers, support systems and distribution. Effective leadership is an issue which cannot be o...

Research collaboration in health management research communities

BACKGROUND This study uses scientometrics methodology to reveal the status quo and emerging issues of collaboration in health management. METHODS We searched all the articles with the keyword "health management" in the period 1999-2011 in Web of Knowledge, then 3067 articles were found. Methods such as Social network analysis (SNA), co-authorship, co-word analysis were used in this study. R...