Subtopics: Measures of health status, access, utilization, safety, quality, Sources of data valid for international comparisons
Learning Objectives:
Undergraduate students should be able to
- Identify tools, techniques and metrics for measuring community health status in different countries
- List challenges to accurate data collection within and across multiple countries
- Describe how measures of quality may be different in different countries
Graduate students should be also able to
- Apply valid data and metrics to compare community health status in different countries
- Explain the challenges to accurate data collection within and across countries
- Evaluate the impact of a healthcare program on one or more nations using appropriate data and metrics
- Relate expectations of quality to healthcare system and cultural differences across countries