Measuring the impact of Health Trainers Services on health and health inequalities: does the service's data collection and reporting system provide reliable information?
Author(s) -
Jonathan Mathers,
Beck Taylor,
Jayne Parry
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdv214
Subject(s) - bespoke , data collection , context (archaeology) , public health , health services , business , environmental health , medicine , computer science , nursing , geography , sociology , advertising , population , social science , archaeology
The Health Trainers Service is one of the few public health policies where a bespoke database-the Data Collection and Reporting System (DCRS)-was developed to monitor performance. We seek to understand the context within which local services and staff have used the DCRS and to consider how this might influence interpretation of collected data.
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