MACMILLAN 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. Review “It is heartening that this book provides creative methods to address data needs from the country perspective. This timely volume takes a unique approach and will make a critical contribution to successful implementation of major global policies such as Universal Health Coverage.” (Tikki Pang, Visiting Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore) “A rich and thoughtful set of chapters provides methods that can improve all aspects of health data nationally, regionally and globally. This handbook is both scientific and practical and is an essential tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for health.” (Ties Boerma, Professor, Centre for Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, Canada) “In an era when modeled estimates of morbidity and mortality dominate the global health discourse, this remarkable book promotes high-quality national and sub-national data collection to produce reliable health statistics. Readers will find its methods essential to advance the unfinished agenda of achieving useful quality health data globally.” (Cesar Victora, Emeritus Professor, International Center for Equity in Health, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil) From the Back Cover 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. About the Author Sarah Macfarlane is Emerita Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Institute of Global Health Sciences at the University of California San Francisco in the United States. She has collaborated with individuals and institutions worldwide to build health information, surveillance and statistical systems.   Carla AbouZahr is a senior technical adviser to the Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her career in global health includes over 20 years with the World Health Organization working with country and international partners to strengthen health information systems.