Many countries have identified primary health care as an urgent priority, but they lack the data needed to pinpoint weaknesses, understand the causes of weakness and drive improvements.
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The DIPH Ethiopia in its second cycleThe teams are collecting and analysing data from 12 district health offices which are DIPH-implementing districts and from 12 non-implementation control districts. The DIPH is embedded within the district level health system of Ethiopia and is integrated into the already existing monthly Performance Review Team Meeting...
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Data Informed Platform for Health – training handbookIt also elaborates on the operationalisation and cyclical implementation of the Data-Informed Platform for Health at the district level. The target audience for this handbook are district health officers, both in administrative and managerial roles within the health systems. Part A of the handbook covers the four core...
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Introducing the Data-Informed Platform for HealthWhat is a Data-Informed Platform for Health? In low-resource settings the use of local data for health system planning and decision-making is often limited. What data there is may be of poor quality and a data sharing culture is lacking. Health administrators often have limited capacity to analyse and use data for...
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Introducing the Data-Informed Platform for HealthWhat is a Data-Informed Platform for Health? In low-resource settings the use of local data for health system planning and decision-making...
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Better measurement for better maternal and newborn health: A new ten million dollar grant for research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineWhat is IDEAS? IDEAS (Informed DEcisions for ActionS in maternal and newborn health) aims to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies...
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The Pathway to Improved Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes in Gombe State, NigeriaUse of data for maternal and newborn health in Gombe State, Nigeria (Data from February 2016)
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Commentary-District decision-making to strengthen maternal, newborn and child health services in low-income settingsCommentary to accompany a series of four papers on the use of data for district decision-making for health in low-income settings, published in Health Policy and Planning.
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District decision-making for health in low-income settings: a feasibility study of a data-informed platform for health in India, Nigeria and EthiopiaA study of the feasibility of using a data informed platform for health in a district health systems context in five districts of India, Nigeria and Ethiopia.
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District decision-making for health in low-income settings: a systematic literature reviewA systematic literature review investigating the ways in which district administrators and health managers in low- and lower-middle-income countries use health data to make decisions.
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District decision-making for health in low-income settings: a case study of the potential of public and private sector data in India and EthiopiaA study documenting the nature and type of data collected by the public and private health systems, data flow and sharing, use and inter-sectoral linkages in India and Ethiopia.
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District decision-making for health in low-income settings: a qualitative study in Uttar Pradesh, India, on engaging the private health sector in sharing health-related dataAn assessment of the extent of maternal, newborn and child health-related data sharing between the private and public sectors in two districts of Uttar Pradesh, India; analysing barriers to data sharing; and identifying the key inputs required.
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Accelerating progress in Maternal and Newborn Child HealthHow do we scale-up high impact service packages that will accelerate progress in maternal and newborn child health towards the 2030 Sustainable...