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The Development of a County-Based Public Health Data, Information, and Resource Network: Framing the Concepts and Issues
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Author: Barry E. Gustin
List Price: $40.00
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ISBN: 1889059099
Publisher: Regent Press (August, 1997)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 1,194,289
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
A must read text for Public Health
Those of us in public health have been regularly frustrated by the lack of collaboration and persistant fragmentation in the field. Dr. Gustin's sentinal work lays the groundwork for a system which circumvents these problems. He then goes on to develop a web-based architecture based on vector analysis that he calls 'situational cubes' to seamlessly identify and interdigitate public health sectors, public health problems, and at risk groups. This is an inspirational forward thinking work. Well-referenced and well-conceived, it is a quick yet powerful read.This text should be standard reading in all public health academic programs in the US and abroad...
Rating: 5 out of 5
A breakthrough text...
This book appears to be the first written work detailing the role of the internet in the process of public health collaboration and data, information, and resource sharing. It is clearly a major breakthrough for those of us in public health that have been frustrated with the redundancy and fragmentation that occurs between the various sectors of the community that participate in solving public health problems. A visionary, Dr. Gustin brilliantly lays out a concise foundation for his theoretical basis of an on-line network. He then goes on to develop a web architecture based on what he calls 'situational cubes' a three dimensional vector creation which takes into account all the perturbations of sectors, public health problems, and at-risk groups. In my opinion, simply brilliant. I would like to see some follow-up to this work, simply because it is so right on target and because the utility/possibilities are so large!
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