TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Public health approaches to protecting vulnerable populations: a public health response to data interoperability to prevent child maltreatment
JO  - American journal of public health
A1  - Nguyen, Loc H.
SP  - 2043
EP  - 2048
VL  - 104
IS  - 11
N2  - The sharing of data, particularly health data, has been an important tool for the public health community, especially in terms of data sharing across systems (i.e., interoperability). Child maltreatment is a serious public health issue that could be better mitigated if there were interoperability. There are challenges to addressing child maltreatment interoperability that include the current lack of data sharing among systems, the lack of laws that promote interoperability to address child maltreatment, and the lack of data sharing at the individual level. There are waivers in federal law that allow for interoperability to prevent communicable diseases at the individual level. Child maltreatment has a greater long-term impact than a number of communicable diseases combined, and interoperability should be leveraged to maximize public health strategies to prevent child maltreatment. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print September 11, 2014: e1-e5. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2014.302143).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0090-0036
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302143
ID  - ref1
ER  -