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Apr 1, 2015

WHO: Vaccine safety events: managing the communications response

Subjects: EPI Plan, WHO
Countries: Global

This Guide provides informative strategies and tools to support effective communication planning and management in response to vaccine safety events. It is accompanied by a Quick Guide and is designed to be used by immunization programme managers and partners.

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Jan 29, 2015

Idea to Impact: A Guide To Introduction and Scale

Subjects: Practices, USAID
Countries: Global

The challenges of developing, introducing and scaling global health solutions – whether they are medical devices, drugs, diagnostics, vaccines or consumer products – are innumerable. As a result, it often takes years, sometimes decades, for these products to reach most of their intended users. By describing priority activities and their importance, supplemented with inspirational case studies and practical tools, IDEA to IMPACT is intended to help global health practitioners accelerate impact through better coordination and earlier planning

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Mar 5, 2015

Health Workforce Productivity Analysis and Improvement Toolkit

Subjects: Human Resources Plan, Monitoring & Evaluation
Countries: Global

CapacityPlus announces this toolkit, a process to measure the productivity of facility-based health workers, understand causes of productivity problems, and identify interventions to address them. Many countries are striving to meet the demand for family planning, end preventable child and maternal deaths, and achieve an AIDS-free generation.The health workforce is critical for ensuring access to high-quality services and improve health outcomes. While increasing the number of health workers where there are shortages is essential, it is equally important to improve the productivity of the existing workforce and make service delivery more efficient.

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Aug 27, 2012

Nigeria Immunization Fact Sheet

Subjects: EPI Plan, Tools, USAID
Countries: Nigeria

According to official country reports, infant immunization coverage in Nigeria, as reported by DTP3, increased significantly from 57% in 2008 to 74% in 2010. This was followed by a significant drop to 61% in 2011. These reported coverage improvements were primarily due to the country’s decision in 2006 to add multiple antigens and other child survival interventions to the polio eradication campaigns (now referred to as Immunization Plus Days or IPDs) that are held every 4-6 weeks in the northern polio endemic states and at least twice per year nationally. Given the challenges with disaggregating IPD and routine immunization data sub-nationally, denominator issues, and also increased routine immunization focus nationwide through the Reaching Every Ward (REW) approach, official country estimates have greatly fluctuated since 2007.

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Jun 1, 2013

Using PRISM to strengthen and evaluate health information systems

Subjects: EPI Plan, PRISM (Performance of Routine Information System Management)
Countries: Global

The PRISM framework identifies strengths and weaknesses in RHIS performance and bridges the gaps, leading to improved health system performance. Routine health information systems (RHIS) attempt to produce timely and quality information about what is happening in health sector organizations. Ideally, this information is used to guide day-to-day operations, track performance, learn from past results, and improve accountability

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Aug 21, 2012

Liberia Routine Immunization Overview

Subjects: EPI Plan, Tools
Countries: Liberia

The DHS conducted in 2007 pointed to coverage rates in Liberia that were significantly lower than official country reports.  Despite an increasing trend between 2004 and 2009, WHO/UNICEF estimates illustrate a sharp decrease in coverage over the last two years.  In 2011, Liberia’s immunization program failed to reach 39% (or 56,160) of its target population of children under one year of age with even a first dose of the DTP vaccine.  Twelve percent of the children who began the DTP vaccination series did not complete it (drop out rate between DTP1 and DTP3), as shown in the graph below. Drop-out rates that are higher than 10% typically indicate problems with how immunization services are being delivered, perceived (e.g. friendly and reliable services) and used.   The population’s use of routine immunization services is determined by the availability of, access to, demand for, and acceptance of those services.

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Aug 6, 2012

Kenya Routine Immunization Overview

Subjects: EPI Plan, Tools
Countries: Kenya

Kenya’s national immunization program was one of the most successful in East Africa in the 1990s.   In the last ten years, Kenya’s immunization coverage for DTP3 has averaged between 73% and 88%. The drop-out rate nationally was reported at 7% in 2009 (see graph below). Coverage has varied, however, between provinces–with some reporting DTP3 below 70% and with DPT1-DPT3 drop-out rates above 10%.  In 2008, a post-election political crisis destabilized the country, particularly in Western, Nyanza and Rift Valley provinces.  This resulted in interruption of health services, including vaccination, during that year.  There were also vaccine stock-outs in 2008 and the first quarter of 2009.  Additionally, the division of districts and creation of new districts (from 78 to 254) has resulted in problems with denominator calculations and difficulty in ensuring fully functioning District Health Management Teams and services in many of the new districts. The recent creation of two separate health ministries with split program functions has also resulted in managerial and financial complications for preventive services like immunization.

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Dec 10, 2012

Improving data quality in The African Region

Subjects: Data Warehouse, Software, Standards, Tools, WHO
Countries: Global

• Data quality is one of the 4 IVD priority in AFRO
• Existence of robust DM system at different level
• There is more interest on data quality than ever (Opportunity)
• Good data = good decision, wrong data = wrong decision
• Need data to monitor goals at all levels (Country, Region, Global)
• Data management has not enjoyed deserved recognition from EPI Manager on staff allocation (skills)
• Recommendations from TFI as well as EPI managers’ meetings

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Feb 2, 2013

Selecting and Implementing the Right Information and Communications Technologies: A Toolkit for Decision-makers

Subjects: OPTIMIZE, WHO
Countries: Global

This guide aims to provide public health managers with knowledge required for the implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT). It is not an exhaustive technical guide to information systems implementation, nor does it address the strategic questions around a wider e-Health vision. Instead, it draws on lessons learned in Project Optimize and others to propose a simple step-by-step process.

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