TAKING STOCK of GMMB

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HMN Assessment and Monitoring Tools
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HMN Assessment and Monitoring Tools An Iterative
Process
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Context, Resources and Processes

• Legal and regulatory issues HIS plan and
  indicators
• Consensus national HIS plan Coordinating
  mechanism with multiple stakeholder involvement
  (health, statistics, other sectors) Defined core
  indicators for local, national, global level
  reporting
• Defined standards for reporting
• Alignment with MDGs, key programmes
• Resources Human Financial
• Data management and costs
• Clear data flows across levels and between
  programmes
• Information on costs of data collection
  approaches
• Central data depository easily accessible

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Rating Context, Resources and Processes Thailand
2005
rating

• Legal framework and context
• Human resources availability and skills
• Infrastructure, equipment, information technology
• Data flow and management, feedback

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Rating Context, Resources and Processes Thailand
Ghana 2005
rating

• Legal framework and context
• Human resources availability and skills
• Infrastructure, equipment, information technology
• Data flow and management, feedback

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From Data Demand to Data Collection
Data collectionplatforms
Data demand
Diseasesurveillance
DeterminantsRisk factors
Health financial statistics
Health system
Health servicestatistics
Health servicescoverage
Household survey
Morbidity
Health status
Vital registration
Mortality
Census
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Data Collection in Countries
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Data Collection in Ghana 1991-2008 (non-routine
only)
DHS 2
DHS Demographic and Health Survey MICS
Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey CWIQ Core
Welfare Indicators Survey LSS Living
Standards Survey WHS World Health Survey SPA
Service Provision Assessment
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Criteria for Assessment of Data Collection
Platforms

• Contents
• Appropriate data collection method used
• Cost efficiency and effectiveness issues
  considered
• Capacity
• Country capacity to collect the data and manage
  and analyse the results
• Practices
• Standards applied for data collection
• Documentation available and accessible, high
  quality
• Dissemination
• Analysis of results of available and disseminated
• Micro data available for public access
• Meta data available
• Integration
• Results from different data collection methods
  compared
• Appropriate data collection methods used for
  demographic, health and socioeconomic data
  collection (poverty monitoring) and to provide
  denominators for estimating of need and coverage

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Rating Data Collection Platforms Thailand, 2005
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Rating Data Collection Platforms Thailand
Ghana, 2005
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Criteria for Assessment of HIS Outputs/Indicators

• Data collection method
• Timeliness
• Periodicity
• Consistency
• Representativeness
• Disaggregration
• Estimation method

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Rating HIS Outputs/Indicators Selected
Countries, 2005
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Rating HIS Outputs/Indicators Selected
Countries, 2005
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Rating HIS Outputs/Indicators Selected
Countries, 2005
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Rating HIS Outputs/Indicators Mortality,
Selected Countries, 2005
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Rating HIS Outputs/Indicators Mortality Other
Health Statistics, Selected Countries, 2005
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Rating HIS Outputs/Indicators MDG Indicators,
Selected Countries, 2005
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HMN Operational Framework An Iterative Process
of HIS Assessment, Development, Monitoring
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HMN Operational Framework An Iterative Process
of HIS Assessment, Development, Monitoring
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Using the HMN Operational Framework in Countries

• Country driven and led
• Stakeholders involved, health and statistics,
  programmes and donors
• HMN provides technical support and covers
  convening costs
• Country profiles indicates gaps and weaknesses in
  health information system
• Provides basis for development of costed national
  HIS development plan

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