When you have successfully completed this assignment, you will be able to:

Identify policies and strategies to achieve data integrity (3)

Describe components of data dictionaries and data sets (2)

Apply health informatics concepts to the management of health information (3)

Examine behaviors that embrace cultural diversity (4)

Information Evaluating the U.S. and world health data is essential in understanding in providing healthcare to all especially the underserved populations.

Instructions

Open the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Observatory Data Repository (Links to an external site.)to review the data for the United States.

Review for years 2012 to 2015 only.

Next, on the left-hand side of the screen, click on By country and choose a country from the list.

Click on that country

Review that countrys profile and country statistics.

Compare the data to the U.S. for the same years

Answer these questions:

What country did you choose?

What statistical differences occurred?

What did you find striking about the data and countries reviewed?

In 3-4 sentences, write a short paragraph outlining these findings

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