Assessing the national health information system
Subtitle: an assessment tool
By: Health Metrics Network
Contributors: World Health Organization
Edition: Version 4.00.
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Geneva]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9789241547512
Subjects: Public Health Informatics; World Health; Data Collection; Methods; Program Evaluation; Information storage and retrieval systems; Public health; Standards; Information Systems; Information services; Vital Statistics; Vital statistics
Description: This assessment tool describes in detail how to undertake a first baseline assessment of a national HIS. The assessment process is intended to be both catalytic and synergistic. It should move stakeholders towards a shared and broader vision of a more coherent, integrated, efficient and useful system. The gap between the existing system and this new vision will be an important stimulus for moving to the next stage of planning national HIS reform. Such an assessment process can also be a mechanism for directly engaging stakeholders and for reinforcing broad-based consensus-building.--Publisher's description.
Notes: "The Health Metrics Network (HMN) was launched in 2005 to help countries ... improve global health by strengthening the systems that generate health-related information for evidence-based decision-making."--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Assessment of the national health information system (HIS); title: Scoring and interpretation of results. The HMN assessment and monitoring tool : version 4. Assessing national HIS response; title: Assessing national HIS indicators; title: Assessing national HIS data sources; title: Assessing national HIS data management; title: Assessing national HIS data quality; title: Assessing national HIS information dissemination and use.