Public Health Informatics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

2. ICT and Its Roles in Health Development

   • Kassahun Dessie Gashu

   Pages 1-26

3. Public Health Informatics: An Overview

   • Zeleke Abebaw Mekonnen

   Pages 27-61

4. Data Analytics and Public Health

   • Habtamu Alganeh Guadie

   Pages 63-96

5. The Digital Ecosystem and Major Public Health Informatics Initiatives in Resource-Limited Settings

   • Kassahun Dessie Gashu

   Pages 97-140

6. Implementation Status of Public Health Informatics

   • Moges Asressie Chanyalew

   Pages 141-184

7. Leadership and Governance of Public Health Informatics

   • Zeleke Abebaw Mekonnen, Moges Asressie Chanyalew

   Pages 185-223

8. Ethics in Public Health Informatics

   • Kassahun Dessie Gashu, Habtamu Alganeh Guadie

   Pages 225-262

9. Back Matter

   Pages 263-264

Digital health is becoming a key solution to improve access and quality healthcare delivery through overcompensating geographical barriers and facilitating evidence-based decision-making. Big data, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, machine learning and other technologies are playing an enormous role in the advancement of public health. Public health informatics is an emerging concept becoming to improve access and quality as well as reduce catastrophic health expenditure.

Public Health Informatics: Implementation and Governance in Resource-Limited Settings is designed to provide insight for public health practitioners, technologists and healthcare workers to the use of digital technologies in public health especially those based in otherwise resource-limited settings. It is therefore vital reading for stakeholders who strive to set policy, guidelines and establish infrastructures to reduce the digital-divide in healthcare delivery.