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3b - Sickness and Health

Sickness and Health Index

Author: Meic Goodyear, Neeraj Malhotra

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  • Sources of routine mortality and morbidity data, including primary care data, and how they are collected and published at international, national, regional and district levels
  • Biases and Artifacts in Population Data
  • International Classification of Diseases and other methods of classification of disease and medical care
  • Rates and ratios used to measure health status including geographical, occupational, social class and other socio-demographic variations
  • Routine notification and registration systems for births, deaths and specific diseases, including cancer and other morbidity registers
  • Pharmacoepidemiology, including use of prescribing and pharmacy sales data
  • Data linkage within and across datasets
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