This book covers all aspects of public health informatics and discusses the creation and management of an information technology infrastructure that is essential in linking state and
local organizations in their efforts to gather data for the surveillance and prevention.
Public health officials will have to understand basic principles of information resource management in order to make the
appropriate technology choices that will guide the future of their organizations. As the major topic at the American Medical Informatics Association's (AMIA) spring congress in 2001, public health has moved into the spotlight, given the importance of implementing a population-based health approach and to
The publication of this book has been highly anticipated by many in the emerging field of public health informatics and it does not disappoint. Although seemingly targeted at those new or recently