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Balancing health and personal data protection: operational and policy considerations 08-06-2021

Public health institutions are increasingly required to balance fundamental rights and data protection principles. To address this, WHO/Europe has released easy-to-implement steps to allow any organization in public health to increase its level of data protection compliance.

Highlighted publications

Support tool to strengthen health information systems: guidance for health information system assessment and strategy development (2021)

Strengthening population health surveillance: a tool for selecting indicators to signal and monitor the wider effects of the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)

A call to strengthen data in response to COVID-19 and beyond (J Am Med Inform Assoc, Mar. 2021)

Impact of Big Data Analytics on People's Health: Overview of Systematic Reviews and Recommendations for Future Studies (J Med Internet Res, Apr. 2021)

Digital Data Sources and Their Impact on People’s Health: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews (Front. Public Health, May 2021)

Routine Health Information Systems in the European Context: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews (Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, May 2021); 18(9):4622

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