Health Promotion International, Vol. 6, No. 2, 121-133, 1991
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Collecting health information at a local level
Department of Epidemiology, Municipal Health Service Rotterdam area
Address for correspondence: Address for correspondence: Dr H. F. L. Garretsen Head Department of Epidemiology Municipal Health Service Rotterdam PO Box 70032 3000 LP Rotterdam The Netherlands
Target 35 of the ‘Health for All’ strategy states that "member states should have health information systems capable of supporting their national strategies for Health for All".
in Rorterdam a local health information system has been developed which aims to:
- Monitor the health situation and related factors in the city of Rotterdam at district and neighbourhood level;
- Contribute to the development of a local health policy for reducing the noted differences in the health situation of the population.
information is collected from various sources including:
- data on mortality and morbidity and statistics concerning health related areas like housing, employment, traffic, environment, etc.;
- data collected from the population itself;
- ideas and views of key informants;
- documentary information.
The article outlines the design of the system, gives a review of the information stored and presents some of the results.
Key words: health information systems; healthy cities; regional health differences
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