What Is the Purpose of the Integrated Public Health Information

question 23

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of the integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS) ?

• A) Reporting system that allows jurisdictions within a province to communicate disease patterns
• B) A system developed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to link Canada and the United States
• C) Electronic system to communicate outbreaks of respiratory or enteric illnesses interprovincially
• D) An internationally linked computer system for communicating outbreaks globally

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

The square root of the variance of a set of values in a population, measuring how spread out the values are.

Sample Size

The number of individual samples or observations collected in a statistical study.

Interval Estimate

An assortment of values, from sample statistics, which is envisioned to contain the value of a mysterious population parameter.

Population Mean

The average value of all elements in a complete set of a population.