Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Medicine and Health Sciences Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Community Health and Preventive Medicine

Selected Works

2012

Christopher Cook

Articles 1 - 2 of 2

Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences

Environmental Health Information Systems: More Than Just Gigabytes, Christopher R. Cook Sep 2012

Environmental Health Information Systems: More Than Just Gigabytes, Christopher R. Cook

Christopher Cook

Environmental health professionals are concerned about bites. Animal bites, mosquito bites, and tick bites to name a few. But what about bytes of data? Environmental health information systems (EHIS) are often the "silent partners" in an environmental health (EH) department's daily protection of public health. By Webster's dictionary definition, a silent partner is a cohort that does not have the right to participate in an organization's management process. The purpose of this study was to encourage public health officials to make EHIS full partners in their EH departments. Through the use of five surveys, this study was designed to increase …


Environmental Health Information Systems: More Than Just Gigabytes, Christopher R. Cook Aug 2012

Environmental Health Information Systems: More Than Just Gigabytes, Christopher R. Cook

Christopher Cook

Environmental health professionals are concerned about bites. Animal bites, mosquito bites, and tick bites to name a few. But what about bytes of data? Environmental health information systems (EHIS) are often the "silent partners" in an environmental health (EH) department's daily protection of public health. By Webster's dictionary definition, a silent partner is a cohort that does not have the right to participate in an organization's management process. The purpose of this study was to encourage public health officials to make EHIS full partners in their EH departments. Through the use of five surveys, this study was designed to increase …