Title :
Problems in managing a large population and health data base
Author :
Riggan, Wilson B. ; Creason, John P. ; Heiderscheit, L.T. ; Hayes, Carl O.
Abstract :
The US Environmental Protection Agency´s Health Effects Research Laboratory´s (HERLs) mortality database contains all cancer death records for 1950-61, all death records for 1962-87, and population data by country, race, sex, and age for 1950-87. This work has three main objectives: to identify problems in managing large spatial and temporal population and health databases; to use the population and cancer mortality database at HERL to illustrate problems and solutions; and to point out other areas where the proposed solutions are applicable
Keywords :
database management systems; medical administrative data processing; HERL; cancer death records; health data base; health databases; large population databases; mortality database; population data; Cancer; Cities and towns; Diseases; Risk management; Statistics;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1990., Proceedings of Third Annual IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Chapel Hill, NC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-9040-2
DOI :
10.1109/CBMSYS.1990.109439
