Linking prison health care data to other health data: A novel data linkage study in Northern Ireland
Objectives We describe the progress made in the development of a novel linked database designed to improve understanding about the health, mental health, health service use and mortality risk of people following their release from prison in Northern ...
Janine Cooper +5 more
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Summary Review of Data Sources for School to Work Transitions by Youth with Disabilities - Policy Brief [PDF]
This brief summarizes our findings from a review of potential data sources to examine school-to-work transitions by youth with disabilities (Wittenburg and Stapleton, 2000).
Stapleton, David C., Wittenburg, David
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Background The linkage of records across administrative databases has become a powerful tool to increase information available to undertake research and analytics in a privacy protective manner.
Claire de Oliveira +19 more
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Dismantling the signposts to public health? NHS data under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 [PDF]
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 will replace the administrative structure of the NHS in England, currently based on the resident populations of defined geographical areas, with one that relates instead to the shifting populations of individuals ...
Godden, S. +2 more
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Introduction Across the world, data sources to support learning in primary care (PC) lag far behind that of acute care. Having comparable data sources across jurisdictions is essential for scaling and spreading healthcare learnings.
Mhd. Wasem Alsabbagh +13 more
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Identifying Individuals with Eating Disorders Using Health Administrative Data [PDF]
Eating disorders are common and have a high public health burden. However, existing clinically relevant data sources are scarce, limiting the capacity to accurately measure the burden of eating disorders. This study tests the feasibility of generating a large clinically relevant cohort of individuals with eating disorders using health administrative ...
Paul, Kurdyak +5 more
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Utilising identifier error variation in linkage of large administrative data sources
Background Linkage of administrative data sources often relies on probabilistic methods using a set of common identifiers (e.g. sex, date of birth, postcode). Variation in data quality on an individual or organisational level (e.g.
Katie Harron +3 more
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The Health Resources and Services Administration Diversity Data Collection [PDF]
The Health Resources and Services Administration maintains a strong emphasis on increasing the diversity of the health-care workforce through its grant programs. Increasing the diversity of the workforce is important for reducing health disparities in the population caused by socioeconomic, geographic, and race/ethnicity factors because evidence ...
Kathleen M, White +3 more
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Linking routinely collected social work, education and health data to enable monitoring of the health and health care of school-aged children in state care (‘looked after children’) in Scotland: a national demonstration project [PDF]
Background and objectives: Children in state care (‘looked after children’) have poorer health than children who are not looked after. Recent developments in Scotland and elsewhere have aimed to improve services and outcomes for looked after children ...
Clark, D. +10 more
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Purpose There is a recent and growing migrant population in Northern Ireland. However, rigorous research is absent regarding access to mental health care by different migrant groups.
Tania Bosqui +7 more
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