Use of Demographic Data Have on Public Health Initiatives

Public health initiative is oneof the recent techniques used by the healthcareindustry to

enhance service delivery. The technique involves the society, the government, and the healthcare

units. Therefore, it becomes easier to run health-related activities aiming at helping the patients or

the affected people. The increasing rates of disease complications like Cancer and even the recent

Covid-19 epidemic require appropriate and accurate public initiative for them to be controlled.

Important to note, when running public health initiatives, demographic data is essential. The socio-

economic information segments the regions and groups of people that are at risk of getting certain

disease complications (Bleakley, 2019). The demographic data used relies on significant

approximations to dispense some of the activities. However, the estimates are almost accurate.

Age and gender form the type of data that is most valuable in creating demographics for