What is it about?
Indicators are foundational for planning, monitoring, and evaluating health services in developing countries. This paper highlights the challenges that healthcare providers experience while trying to use health indicators.
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Why is it important?
We found that health managers at different levels of health systems do not share the same understanding of health indicators and we observed a widespread absence of population data. We further observed that health managers derive alternative ways of calculating indicators in the absence of population data.
Perspectives
With the advent of computers and computerized information systems, information system practitioners have forgotten that in the rural healthcare facilities, in the absence of computers and access to the internet, healthcare professional need to understand the difference between data elements and indicators and be able to collect and analyze routine data manual. I hope this article makes what information system practitioners might think is boring, kind of interesting, and maybe even exciting.
Flora Nah
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This page is a summary of: Challenges for Health Indicators in Developing Countries: Misconceptions and Lack of Population Data, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7_48.
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