What’s in the numbers — how does public health data reflect you and me?

January 13, 2011

Pennsylvania’s Department of Health online site tells us a lot about numbers and how communication adds up to a lot of data. There is a link in the form of an image for newborns near the bottom of the homepage that tells the story about data collected at the time of a birth in Pennsylvania [http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=558226&mode=2].

Linking from the general overview, there is an image of a block —  one of several —  to click on for answers to ‘parents frequently asked questions.’ It describes what screening tests will be conducted on each newborn, and tells us — that the results will be reported to the Department of Health. And so it begins… information about each one of us contributing to public health priorities…

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