title: Public health informatics: the nature of the field and its relevance to health promotion practice.
abstract: The purpose of this article is to introduce the relatively new field of public health informatics and provide examples of how informatics is currently being applied to health promotion activities. Additionally, the article illustrates how informatics is well positioned to play a central role and is likely to be central to disease prevention, health education, and health promotion as it will be practiced in the future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics and Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kukafka
mesh_terms: D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D040442:Public Health Informatics