Health Data and Public Policy

Harvard HSPH

This course will survey the major types of health data used in making health policy, and will look at the role health data plays in addressing several major state health policy challenges. Upon completion of this course you will be able to: describe the most important types of health data used to support state health policymaking; identify the analytic strengths and weakness of each type of health data; provide examples of each type of data being used to support major health policy…