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The public health uses of the Scottish Community Health Index (CHI)
John Womersley, Consultant in Public Health Medicine
Greater Glasgow Health Board 225 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4JT
Each of the 15 Health Boards in Scotland maintains a computer file of its residents who are registered with ageneral practitioner; this is known as the Community Health Index or CHI. The CHI allows a variety of demographic data and indicators of health to be analysed on either a geographic or general practice base, or both simultaneously. The considerable potential of the CHI as a public health tool may be of interest to health authorities outside Scotland which are developing wider uses for their own family practitioner registers.
Keywords: Community Health Index, (population) registers, patient indices
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