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.
Report
DIPH 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...
Research brief
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...
Published content
Journal article
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.
Journal article
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.
Journal article
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.
News
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...
Journal article
Linkages between public and non-government sectors in healthcare: a case study from Uttar Pradesh, IndiaA study of the links between the public health system and two NGOs in Uttar Pradesh, showing frequent interaction and some reciprocity in information and resource flows, but weak participation in policy and planning.
Blog Post
Cross-sector collaboration is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: Global Maternal Newborn Health ConferenceLess than a month after the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed by countries at the United Nations, this conference brought together...
Past event
We’re going to the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference 2015IDEAS will be presenting on using local data for decision making to improve maternal and newborn health and getting innovations to reach more...
Blog Post
Rough roads and rivers: getting institutional delivery services to women in rural West Bengal“The greatest success of the Community Delivery Centres has been the decline in home births” – quote from Community Delivery Centre doctor...
News
Bringing together district-level data for better maternal and newborn health decisions in West Bengal, IndiaThe DIPH will enable district health stakeholders – local government departments, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and private health...