Question

Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following questions:

• What impact does the use of demographic data have on public health initiatives?
• What type of data do you believe is most valuable for this purpose?

Answer 1

Ans) The health and healthcare needs of a population cannot be measured or met without knowledge of its size and characteristics.

- Demographyis concerned with this and with understanding population dynamics—how populations change in response to the interplay between fertility, mortality, and migration.

- With increasing use of mobile phone access globally, opportunities exist to explore the feasibility of using this technology as an interim method to collect data and complement household surveys.

- Such technologies have the potential to allow for efficiencies in producing timely, affordable, and accurate data to monitor trends, and supplement traditional health surveys with new, faster mobile phone surveys.