title: Rethinking health planning : a framework for organising information to underpin collaborative health planning
creator: Gudes, Ori
creator: Kendall, Elizabeth
creator: Yigitcanlar, Tan
creator: Pathak, Virendra
creator: Scott, Baum
subject: 080702 Health Informatics
subject: 090903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: 111700 PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES
subject: 111711 Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance)
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 120501 Community Planning
subject: 160508 Health Policy
subject: Clinical Decision Support Systems
subject: Health Planning
subject: Community Health Planning
subject: Primary Healthcare
subject: Healthy People Programs
subject: Collaboration
subject: Information Management
subject: Evidence-Based Healthcare
description: The field of collaborative health planning faces significant challenges created by the narrow focus of the available information, the absence of a framework to organise that information and the lack of systems to make information accessible and guide decision-making. These challenges have been magnified by the rise of the ‘healthy communities movement’, as a result of which, there have been more frequent calls for localised, collaborative and evidence-driven health related decision-making. This paper discusses the role of decision support systems as a mechanism to facilitate collaborative health decision-making. The paper presents a potential information management framework to underpin a health decision support system and describes the participatory process that is currently being used to create an online tool for health planners using geographic information systems. The need for a comprehensive information management framework to guide the process of planning for healthy communities has been emphasised. The paper also underlines the critical importance of the proposed framework not only in forcing planners to engage with the entire range of health determinants, but also in providing sufficient flexibility to allow exploration of the local setting-based determinants of health. 
publisher: Health Information Management Association of Australia Ltd.
date: 2010-07-01
type: Journal Article
format: application/pdf
relation: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/33063/1/33063.pdf
relation: http://www.himaa.org.au/himj/journal.html
relation:    Gudes, Ori, Kendall, Elizabeth, Yigitcanlar, Tan, Pathak, Virendra,  & Scott, Baum   (2010)    Rethinking health planning : a framework for organising information to underpin collaborative health planning.  Health Information Management Journal, 39(2), pp. 18-29.    
identifier: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/33063/
rights: Copyright 2010 Health Information Management Association of Australia Ltd.
source: Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering