Snapshot: Public Health Data and COVID-19 in the US (Vocabulary Words)

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  • Health histories: "A record of information about a person’s health. A personal health history may include information about allergies, illnesses, surgeries, immunizations, and results of physical exams and tests. It may also include information about medicines taken and health habits, such as diet and exercise. A family health history includes health information about a person’s close family members (parents, grandparents, children, brothers, and sisters). This includes their current and past illnesses. A family health history may show a pattern of certain diseases in a family." (National Cancer Institute)
  • Comorbidities: The condition of having two or more diseases at the same time. (National Cancer Institute)
  • Health equity: "Health equity is achieved when everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being." (World Health Organization)
  • Data standards: "Data standards are documented agreements on representation, format, definition, structuring, tagging, transmission, manipulation, use, and management of data." (US Environmental Protection Agency)
  • Data infrastructure: It refers to a digital organizational system that connects the creation, distribution, and use of data.
  • Social determinants of health: "The social determinants of health (SDH) are the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. These forces and systems include economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies and political systems." (World Health Organization)

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November 16, 2024 - 1:33pm

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Snapshot: Public Health Data and COVID-19 in the US (Vocabulary Words)

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Anonymous, "Snapshot: Public Health Data and COVID-19 in the US (Vocabulary Words)", contributed by , Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 16 November 2024, accessed 3 December 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/snapshot-public-health-data-and-covid-19-us-vocabulary-words

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