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Title: | The development of a public health intelligence tool for child obesity in greater Manchester | ||||
Author: | Jarvis, Paul Charles |
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0000 0004 2688 2558
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Awarding Body: | The University of Manchester | ||||
Current Institution: | University of Manchester | ||||
Date of Award: | 2009 | ||||
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The increase in obesity prevalence over the past 20 years has become an
international public health crisis. The lack of timely, accurate information led to a
six year delay in recognising the obesity epidemic in UK children, despite height
and weight measurements of children at various ages being routinely collected for
many years.
The chain of data, analytical methods and public health expertise for child obesity
analysis and public health reporting is fragmented. This fragmented workflow
leads to delayed or lost intelligence and public health decision-makers have little
control of the underlying systems to produce the intelligence they require.
This research addressed the specific need for a public health intelligence workflow
system to profile child obesity.
A web based software system known as Obesity Atlas was developed with and for
the Greater Manchester Primary Care Trusts.
In both requirements analysis and evaluation it was found that the combination of
statistics, charts, and geo-visualisation are more informative if chained together in
a workflow than used separately.
In order to inform more public health decisions with current resources, there is a
need for a common framework for finding, sharing, enacting, and re-using public
health intelligence workflows.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.514439 | DOI: | Not available | ||
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