Obesity Atlas and Methodbox: Towards an open framework for sharing public health intelligence workflows

Sarah Thew, Paul Jarvis, John Ainsworth, Iain Buchan

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    Abstract

    The large growth in data sources relevant to public health has not been matched by a growth in human resource for producing intelligence to support decisions or generate new insights. There is a need to bring scarce public health expertise into closer alignment with data and data processing methods to support timely public health analysis. The difficulties of developing and sharing this expertise in large organisations such as the UK's National Health Service have long been recognised. We report findings in this area across two projects Obesity Atlas and Methodbox, which are developing and sharing best practice between Public Health Analysts in England, and we address the relevant generic knowledge management problems in the Public Health community. © 2010 IMIA and SAHIA. All rights reserved.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationStudies in Health Technology and Informatics|Stud. Health Technol. Informatics
    Pages496-500
    Number of pages4
    Volume160
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010
    Event13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, Medinfo 2010 - Cape Town
    Duration: 1 Jul 2010 → …

    Conference

    Conference13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, Medinfo 2010
    CityCape Town
    Period1/07/10 → …

    Keywords

    • E-Lab
    • Knowledge management
    • Public health intelligence
    • Workflow

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