OPEN HEALTH DATA: A CRITICAL LOOK AT ITS AVAILABILITY AND USE

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.2163212330087

• Palavras-chave: Open data, health, public health.

• Keywords: Open data, health, public health.

• Abstract:

  Open data is highly useful for the planning and execution of public administration and in recent years they have acquired great relevance since they were put at the service of citizenship. They are defined as the process that puts the public data available to the administration in digital, standardized and open formats available to society. Regarding health, they are used to follow up on health indicators such as births, morbidity, among many others and that is useful for monitoring remote health services, surveillance of health and research itself, to give some examples. The objective of this work the characterization of existing databases, in the light of international principles on open data in Mexico. There are two sites in Mexico to find open health data: INDRE and EN-SALUD, the last one fed by mostly academic research. Open data are consulted to program primary care services and for research primarily. Access to information is not easy since the data is found in programs little used by citizens, including the federal government portal server is considered by users as low quality, so citizens must go directly to Health centers to participate in your care. Free data feeding requires digital education, culture of reporting health conditions, friendly and available platforms, as well as responding to international principles, especially the principle of governance and social participation and homologating information between national and international organizations.