Advantages

Population-based databases provide many advantages for

health policy makers. For example, decision makers often
confront the pressing need to act and routine data sources
inform policy makers with timely and current information
needed for decision-making.1 Evidence-based policy must
also address the needs and values of the population
because policy decisions are made in the context of
competing social, financial and political goals. Populationbased data reflect real-world experience, which facilitates
the generalizability of the findings and allows better
comparison with other public programs. Population-based
data also help to answer questions on the size of the public
health problem and intervention effectiveness and equity.
Automated health-record databases in the USA have
generally been administrative, that is, the data are derived
from requests to insurers for health care payments, or
claims, for clinical services and therapies. These
retrospective databases have several important
advantages, including a large, population-based sample of
clinical care, data already collected and relatively
inexpensive to use and information on all medical care
provided, regardless of who the provider was, without the
risk of recall and interviewer bias.39 Health care databases
are ideal for evaluating health service utilization and
prescribing patterns. The major weakness of administrative
claims data is the uncertain validity of medical diagnosis,
and information on some potentially important confounding
factors, such as smoking status and alcohol use, may be
lacking.39 Medical records data have the added advantage
of greater validity of a patient's medical history because
the physician-made diagnoses are directly recorded.
Several medical record databases have been used for drug
safety research in the USA (Group Health Cooperative,
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, HMO Research
Network/Harvard Pilgrim, UnitedHealth Group, and state
Medicaid programs); Canada (Saskatchewan Health

Services Databases); and Europe (Automated Pharmacy

Record Linkage in The Netherlands, Tayside Medicines
Monitoring Unit in Scotland (MEMO), and the UK General
Practice Research Database (GPRD)).40 The FDA directly
contracts with four database groups to monitor adverse
effects of marketed drugs.41 The International Society for
Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)
maintains an online digest of retrospective databases

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Difference
In both practices there are numerous differences but to some extent there
are resemblances as well.
Population health issues are main concerns in population based planning.
But in institutional based planning it is more about the current services or
delivery of services.
So it is evident that population based planning execute on the national
level while institutional based planning on the organisational level.
Population based planning begins with diagnosis and based on
assessment of heath problem or causes and factors of risk involve in the
issue. Than focusing on the main questions.
But in institutional based planning it is totally opposite. In this planning
system it starts with analysis of current circumstances, formation of
services aims and objectives. Usage of extracted data as primary
information which could incudes economics conditions for the actual
interventions than development for the services strategies.
Institutional based planning emphasis on institutional management and
services while population based planning gives importance to the heath
improvements.
Population based planning focuses on the modification of health care
system in the concerned area.
But institutional based planning emphases on the betterment of the
services delivery of the concerned institute or organisation.
Population based planning primarily targets on the effectiveness of the
system but on the other hand institutional based planning targets the
efficiency of organization.
Population based planning need more time to do research and analysis
while institutional based planning needs less time because it just focuses
on the organisational.
Advantages