SCORE for health data technical package: tools and standards for SCORE essential interventions
Overview
The new SCORE for Health Data Technical Package forms the cornerstone of WHO’s efforts to strengthen health information systems worldwide, and countries’ capacity to generate, analyse and use health data. The package is published during one of the most data-strained public health crisis responses ever – that of the COVID-19 pandemic – which is placing a huge burden on already overstretched health and health-related data systems worldwide.
To meet the increasingly complex demands on countries for health information, the SCORE for Health Data Technical Package brings together for the first time a set of the most effective interventions and tools for addressing critical data gaps, and strengthening country health data for planning and monitoring health priorities. The interventions selected are known to be the most effective, feasible, sustainable and scalable, and, like other technical packages, the aim of this package is to be able to communicate in a way that resonates with policy-makers and health leaders globally.
The SCORE for Health Data Technical Package comprises five key interventions. Interventions S, C and O focus on improving the availability and quality of data from critical data sources, while interventions R and E aim to enhance the synthesis, analysis, access and use of health data for action. Indicators and actions are included for each intervention.
The SCORE for Health Data Technical Package is not intended to replace existing detailed guidance on implementing various components of a health information system. Instead, it provides a coherent framework for countries to focus on priority interventions and elements, and points countries towards good and best practice actions and to existing and new universally accepted standards and tools.
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