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Health Information Systems and Their Usefulness Among the Women Folk of Kanyakumari District, India

Health Information Systems and Their Usefulness Among the Women Folk of Kanyakumari District, India
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Author(s): R. Gnanabai (Scott Christian College, India)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 14
Source title: Innovations in Measuring and Evaluating Scientific Information
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): J. John Jeyasekar (Tamil Nadu State Forensic Sciences Department, India)and P. Saravanan (Lekshmipuram College of Arts and Science, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3457-0.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter describes how health is the most precious component for the happiness and all-round development of human being in the society. Alongside this, information is an important resource for individual growth and survival. Therefore, a Health Information System (HIS) is a system for collecting/processing of data from various sources, and using the information for policy-making and management of health services. This chapter discusses health literacy and its association with health information needs and health information literacy, the status of women in India and their influence in the well-being of the family, and the impact of HIS. This chapter also proves that with enough data obtained from the women of Kanyakumari District in India, the government's policy needs to be directed towards women for the success of its health-care programmes.

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