The Palgrave Handbook of Global Health Data Methods for Policy and Practice

This handbook compiles methods for gathering, organizing and disseminating data to inform policy and manage health systems worldwide. Contributing authors describe national and international structures for generating data and explain the relevance of ethics, policy, epidemiology, health economics, demography, statistics, geography and qualitative methods to describing population health. The reader, whether a student of global health, public health practitioner, programme manager, data analyst or policymaker, will appreciate the methods, context and importance of collecting and using global health data.

• | Author: Sarah B. Macfarlane, Carla AbouZahr
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 576 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Medical
• | ISBN-10: 1137549831
• | ISBN-13: 9781137549839