Meeting the national needs for public health information

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Release Date: 01 Nov 1996

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (1996) Meeting the national needs for public health information, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 06 June 2023.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (1996). Meeting the national needs for public health information. Canberra: AIHW.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Meeting the national needs for public health information. AIHW, 1996.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Meeting the national needs for public health information. Canberra: AIHW; 1996.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 1996, Meeting the national needs for public health information, AIHW, Canberra.

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This report reviews the statistical information needs of the Public Health Division, in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services.

Summary and recommendations
Introduction
- Background
- Objectives of consultancy
- Project methodology
Overview of current statistical activities
- Estimated cost of statistical activities
- Information activities identified
- Other major sources of information used
Conceptual framework for public health information
- What is public health
- Monitoring, surveillance and evaluation
- Population-level data
- Conceptual framework for public health
- Priority populations
- Public health information needs in the context of the framework
The information needs of Public Health Division
- Objectives of the Public Health Division
- The core business of Public Health Division
- Information needs for surveillance
- Information needs for monitoring/evaluation
- Performance indicators and program management needs
- Information needs for measuring health outcomes
- Information needs for priority setting
- Information needs for priority populations

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