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The Data
Are Now Ready For Use
In order for policymakers to make decisions
that will enhance community health, they must be able to measure and monitor changes in
the health status of a population. Administrative data provide valuable information for
this purpose.
Information can be appropriately aggregated at the level of the individual, the physician
(all care delivered), the hospital, or the population. For population-based analysis, all
care received by residents of the study area/region is studied regardless of where it
takes place.
Using administrative data, a series of indicators of health status, health care
utilization, health care capacity, socioeconomic status, and the ability to cost the
delivery of different types of health care, were created. These indicators are commonly
used in MCHP’s research to measure population health. |