Unit 3 Discussion- Intro To Public Health

NameInstitutionCourseDate Health Informatics and CommunicationsAccording to Gupte (2019), informatics in health involves designing, developing, adopting, and applying information technology-based innovations in healthcare services delivering, managing, and planning. Health communication involves the use of verbal and written strategic influence for the empowerment of persons, populations, and communities to make informed, healthier choices through the promotion of positive attitudes and behaviors by integrating theoretical components and models. Below is a description of sources of public health data and the compilation of the information for populations' health measurements. Sources of public health data and information compilation.Public health data is mainly collected from conducting surveys on health issues in question, administrative and medical records, claims from individuals or populations regarding a specific health issue, surveillance, medical registries, and peer-reviewed works of literature (Mancuso et al., 2016). Effect of religion on healthReligion empowers persons by connecting them to a society and to a supernatural being which makes them psychologically stable (Vanderweel, 2017), example, this ability is used by psychologists to help those who are fighting a disease through the knowledge of religious principles example how sacred a human life is, common