Standards and tools to strengthen health services data

Health services data are essential for patient management, facility management, disease surveillance and monitoring of service provision and resource use. Countries need reliable health services data to assess the performance of their service delivery systems as they work toward the UHC targets and the SDGs.

Health services data are generated through a number of data subsystems including: routine health information systems (RHIS); also termed health management information systems (HMIS), health facility surveys, and various systems for health resource data, including  logistics management information systems, health workforce information systems and master facility lists.

Routine facility and community reporting system

Analysis and use of health facility data toolkit

Set of resources to optimize the analysis and use of data collected through routine health facility information systems, also known as health management information systems (HMIS).

Data Quality Review (DQR) Toolkit

Toolkit to support annual and periodic independent assessments of facility-reported data generated by routine health information systems.

Routine Health Information Systems: A Curriculum on Basic Concepts and Practice (RHISCurriculum)

Guidance and modular curriculum to build capacity for national and district-level programme planners and analysts to review, analyze and present the findings from data that are routinely reported by health facilities.

Master facility list (MFL) resource package: Guidance for countries wanting to strengthen their MFL

USAID, PEPFAR, and WHO free resource package to provide guidance for countries to establish or strengthen their Master Facility List (MFL)

Health facility & community data toolkit

The aim of this toolkit is to provide an overview of best practices, innovations, tools and methods that are available to countries in support of strengthening the components of a health facility information system.

Regular system of facility surveys

Service availability and readiness assessment (SARA)

Health facility assessment tool designed to assess and monitor the service availability and readiness of the health sector and to generate evidence to support the planning and managing of a health system.

Strong country-led governance of data

Global Reference List of 100 Core Health Indicators

A standard set of core health indicators prioritized by the global health community to provide concise information on the health situation and trends of a country.

Monitoring, evaluation and review of national health strategies: a country-led platform for information and accountability

A document that provides guidance to countries and partners for strengthening monitoring, evaluation and review of national health plans and strategies. Also available in French and Spanish.