Management of resources and support systems:
Information systems
For frontline managers
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The Registry at District Level - A Vital Part of Administration in the Health District
Kwik-Skwiz #17, 1999, Health Systems Trust
What is a registry, why important, roles of people involved, steps to set up. (4 pages, pdf 592kb) -
Building a Dispensary Health Management Information System
pdf, 347kb
Community Health Department, 2004, Aga Khan Health Service
Health management information systems in small, local health facilities: need, use, impact and lessons learned
(8 pages, pdf 339KB) -
Assessing the National Health Information System: An Assessment Tool
WHO
A guide for a broad-based assessment of the system’s own environment and organization, responsibilities, roles and relationships; and of the technical challenges of specific data requirements
(80 pages, pdf 650kb) -
Developing Health Management Information Systems: A Practical Guide for Developing Countries
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2004
Review current system; data needs; data flows; collection and reporting tools; data processing; field test new system; training; monitoring and evaluation; dissemination and feedback
(62 pages, pdf 1MB) -
The Good Indicators Guide: Understanding how to use and choose indicators
David Pencheon , 2007, UK National Health Service and Association of Public Health Observatories
The anatomy of an indicator; Understanding variation; Criteria for good indicators and good indicator sets; Ten myths about indicators
(Website with link to document: 40 pages, pdf 535kb) -
The Public Health Observatory Handbook of Health Inequalities Measurement
Roy Carr-Hill and Paul Chalmers-Dixon, Edited by Jennifer Lin, 2005, UK National Health Service and Association of Public Health Observatories
Inequality and its measurement; measuring inequality by social categories; measuring inequality by health and disease categories; measuring inequality by health and disease categories (using data from surveys); an introduction to the use of indexes to measure deprivation; a selection of indexes of multiple deprivation; ; designing surveys to measure inequality;
(Website with links to chapters of document: total 216 pages, pdf 535kb)