Resources

Global Reports

• World Health Statistics report, 2011, WHO
  World Health Statistics 2011 contains the World Health Organization's annual compilation of health-related data for its 193 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals and associated targets.
• Keeping Promises, Measuring Results, advance copy, 2011
  pdf, 839kb
  Keeping Promises, Measuring Results (advance copy) offers ten recommendations from the United Nations Secretary-General's high-level Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health, in order to increase the likelihood that pledges for women's and children's health are honored and that resources are spent in the most effective way to save lives.
• The World Health Report, Health Systems Financing, 2010, WHO
  The World Health Report is the World Health Organization's leading publication. This edition maps out what countries can do to modify their financing systems so they can accelerate towards the goal of universal coverage, i.e. enabling all people to use health services.

WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)

• WHOSIS Database
  WHO's online databaseof core health indicators. Users are able to search, filter and download health related information.
• Core Health Indicators
  Browse the list of indicators that comprise WHOSIS.
• Mortality Profiles

International Classification of Diseases (ICD)

• Learn more about the International Classification of Diseases
• ICD-10
  ICD-10 is the current model of the ICD series, which WHO Member States began using in the mid-1990s.

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

• Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Knowledge Center
  The CRVS Knowledge Center provides information on availability of vital statistics for countries, civil registration coverage, demographic methods, and standards.
• UNSD's Statistical Databases
  Browse a variety of the UN's information resources.

Human Resources and Health Systems Strengthening

• Human Resources for Health Information Systems: A Fact-Finding Study
  pdf, 9.89Mb
  Study commissioned by HMN to investigate the situation of human resources for health information systems in Ethiopia and Zambia in late 2009.
• Health Workfoce Information Reference Group (HIRG)
  Organized by the World Health Organization, the Global Health Workforce Alliance and HMN.