J. Marc Overhage
In this chapter, you will learn how to
• Define population health and explain how it differs from healthcare delivery.
• Describe the role of public health in managing illness outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics.
• Identify and explain issues that affect the use of data for population health.
• Apply health data definitions and standards, as well as privacy and confidentiality issues, in typical public health scenarios.
• Identify when public health agencies can receive identifiable health information to perform public health functions without patient authorization.
• Recognize and explain how population health and clinical care needs complement each other.
We commonly think of healthcare as being focused on the prevention or ...
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