Gould J B, Mahajan N, Lucero M
Maternal and Child Health Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.
J Perinat Med. 1988;16(4):305-14. doi: 10.1515/jpme.1988.16.4.305.
The decentralization of health management requires that appropriate tools be developed for decision support at the local level. The Improved Pregnancy Outcome Data Management System (IPODM) was designed to enable health managers and physicians with little computer experience to access over 500 variables derived from United States Census and California Vital Statistics sources. Using an interactive format one can create datasets describing the sociodemographic composition and perinatal outcome of individuals residing in individual census tracts (or zip codes) and in aggregates of these basic units such as neighborhoods, health catchment areas, or municipal districts. IPODM allows one to analyze this information in terms of tables, plots, maps, and basic statistical procedures using an interactive format. This paper describes the system designed for the State of California and the principles that guided the design.
卫生管理的分权要求开发适当的工具以支持地方层面的决策。改进的妊娠结局数据管理系统（IPODM）旨在使几乎没有计算机经验的卫生管理人员和医生能够访问源自美国人口普查和加利福尼亚州人口动态统计数据源的500多个变量。使用交互式格式，用户可以创建数据集，描述居住在各个普查区（或邮政编码区）以及这些基本单位集合（如社区、卫生服务区域或市政区）内的个人的社会人口构成和围产期结局。IPODM允许用户使用交互式格式通过表格、图表、地图和基本统计程序来分析这些信息。本文描述了为加利福尼亚州设计的该系统以及指导设计的原则。
