The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unexpected changes to healthcare systems and new challenges for public health, health monitoring, and health surveillance regarding the necessary data for clinical decisions, resource management, and policymaking.
The pandemic has exposed gaps that need to be addressed for society to return to a better new normal. The first two years of the pandemic led to a substantial increase in scientific publications. Among many other aspects, COVID-19 brought to light the need for more robust public health data.
The challenge remains to reinforce the need for more analysis and exploration of the situations where public health data was or is not available for informing political decisions; where information systems ran into ethical barriers; and where new and innovative solutions had to be created to overcome the data needs imposed by the unexpected pandemic challenges that occurred at local, regional, national, and international levels.
This Research Topic aims to focus on generic health research data issues. The main interest lies in reporting data problems, like data deficits, emergent data problems, poor quality, usual deficient methodological approaches, misuses, or data successes, like data innovative solutions, data sharing and best practices. Special interest goes towards analysing and describing situations where Public Health data is not available for political decisions and where information systems run into ethical barriers.
The manuscripts should focus on data issues, namely examples and practices related to health data, information needs and data availability and its access for research purposes. For that, they can breadth from public health surveillance based on a network of data information systems, either from surveys or electronically based records to administrative data, balancing between data protection due to individual privacy and the public right to access data. The goal is to plan, prevent and protect people and communities from diseases or injuries, namely the increasing burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).
The challenge is balancing (i) the need for the data, (ii) the availability of data and (iii) access to it, probably in something akin to the myth of the Bermuda triangle.
The topics should centre around applied studies related to policies and strategies concerning Public Health, Health Policy, and Health planning with specific focus on local, regional, and national approaches. Topics may include the following themes:
- Health planning and monitoring,
- Health determinants,
- Health care system,
- Health surveillance,
- Governance,
- Health assessment,
- Environmental Health (climate change, air pollution, urban health)
- Health Programmes,
- Health Policy; and
- Universal Health coverage.
These topics are welcome as well as qualitative, mixed, quantitative, and applied, empirical, or conceptual research approaches.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unexpected changes to healthcare systems and new challenges for public health, health monitoring, and health surveillance regarding the necessary data for clinical decisions, resource management, and policymaking.
The pandemic has exposed gaps that need to be addressed for society to return to a better new normal. The first two years of the pandemic led to a substantial increase in scientific publications. Among many other aspects, COVID-19 brought to light the need for more robust public health data.
The challenge remains to reinforce the need for more analysis and exploration of the situations where public health data was or is not available for informing political decisions; where information systems ran into ethical barriers; and where new and innovative solutions had to be created to overcome the data needs imposed by the unexpected pandemic challenges that occurred at local, regional, national, and international levels.
This Research Topic aims to focus on generic health research data issues. The main interest lies in reporting data problems, like data deficits, emergent data problems, poor quality, usual deficient methodological approaches, misuses, or data successes, like data innovative solutions, data sharing and best practices. Special interest goes towards analysing and describing situations where Public Health data is not available for political decisions and where information systems run into ethical barriers.
The manuscripts should focus on data issues, namely examples and practices related to health data, information needs and data availability and its access for research purposes. For that, they can breadth from public health surveillance based on a network of data information systems, either from surveys or electronically based records to administrative data, balancing between data protection due to individual privacy and the public right to access data. The goal is to plan, prevent and protect people and communities from diseases or injuries, namely the increasing burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).
The challenge is balancing (i) the need for the data, (ii) the availability of data and (iii) access to it, probably in something akin to the myth of the Bermuda triangle.
The topics should centre around applied studies related to policies and strategies concerning Public Health, Health Policy, and Health planning with specific focus on local, regional, and national approaches. Topics may include the following themes:
- Health planning and monitoring,
- Health determinants,
- Health care system,
- Health surveillance,
- Governance,
- Health assessment,
- Environmental Health (climate change, air pollution, urban health)
- Health Programmes,
- Health Policy; and
- Universal Health coverage.
These topics are welcome as well as qualitative, mixed, quantitative, and applied, empirical, or conceptual research approaches.
