Francis Andrew Boddy

From there in 1963 he joined the New York City Department of Health and Cornell University, as a research associate involved in health service research in East Harlem.In 1978 he became the director of the Scottish Office funded social, paediatric and obstetric research unit, latterly the public heal...

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Published in:BMJ (Online) 2018-03, Vol.360, p.k1212
Main Authors: McLoone, Philip, Leyland, Alastair
Format: Article
Language:English
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Boddy, Francis Andrew
Medicine
Physicians
Public health
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Summary:From there in 1963 he joined the New York City Department of Health and Cornell University, as a research associate involved in health service research in East Harlem.In 1978 he became the director of the Scottish Office funded social, paediatric and obstetric research unit, latterly the public health research unit, at the University of Glasgow, a role he relinquished when he retired in 1998.Decades before the hype of "Big Data," he had recognised that information routinely collected by health services could provide insight into the health needs of the population and be used to improve the quality of healthcare the population received.
ISSN:0959-8138
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.k1212