Research Interests/Areas
At the College of Public Health and Health Informatics, we are committed to making significant contributions to public health and health informatics research to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health care. The College of Public Health and Health Informatics focuses on a variety of research areas that each department is specialized in.
Public Health Department:
- Occupational diseases and occupational safety research
- Primary health care and disease prevention research
- Smoking, Chronic Diseases and Obesity Research
- Sewage water in Al-Qassim region, drinking water health
- Household and medical wastes
- Parasitic diseases
- Bacterial diseases
- Viral diseases
- Fungal diseases
- Diseases transmitted between humans and animals
- Nutritional diseases
- Humanities related to health
- Smoking, health and social impact in Al-Qassim region, fast food and physical activities
- Causes and effects of various injuries
- Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity
- The nutritional status of children in the Al-Qassim region
- Hereditary blood diseases
Health Informatics Department:
- Public health informatics
- Health information technology
- Electronic/personal medical records
- Consumer health informatics
- Technology adoption and healthcare management
- Data science and analysis
- Using electronic records to improve disease diagnosis
- Health Information Management
- Intelligent Decision Support System
- mHealth
- eHealth
- Systems Analysis and Design
- Machine Learning
Health Administration Department:
- Health Care Administration
- Improving the quality of health care systems
- Health care ethics
- Solving health problems and making decisions
- Statistical methods in health economics in health administration
- Green human resource management practices
- Health services policy
- Patient Safety
- Partnerships between the public and private sectors and (PPP)
- Evaluating the safety culture among health care professionals in health institutions