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Aug 6, 2012
Kenya Routine Immunization Overview
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.Download File: vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document (4.3 MB)
Oct 11, 2012
JLN Information Technology Track: Collaborating Across Countries for Health Insurance Information Systems
Peer Learning, Software, Tools
Global
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Dec 10, 2012
Improving data quality in The African Region
Data Warehouse, Software, Standards, Tools, WHO
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
May 25, 2012
Decade of Vaccines Fact Sheet
GVAP (Global Vaccine Action Plan), Tools, WHO
Global
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Feb 1, 2015
The Economic Burden of Infectious Diseases
Most of us are aware that infectious diseases exact a large toll on humans around the world. Some diseases kill, others maim, and most cause a loss in productivity while the infected person is too ill to go about their daily life. We know that many of these infectious diseases occur in lower-income areas of the world. So that begs the question, what kind of impact are these diseases having on the economies of those lower-income countries if their citizens are experiencing a high burden of infectious disease?Dec 31, 2013
BID Initiative Tools Developer Summit Report
In December 2013, the Better Immunization Data (BID) Initiative hosted a Tools Developer Summit at the PATH office in Washington, DC. This meeting brought information and communication technology (ICT) developers together with the BID Initiative team, partners, and donors to explore the challenges in immunization systems in Africa. The participants focused on how ICT could be used to address three key challenges: beneficiary interfacing, patient identification, and supply chain management. Over the course of two days, participants shared their expertise and ideas, and discussed opportunities for ongoing collaboration in order to solve these problems.Nov 5, 2014
A systematic review of barriers to data sharing in public health
In the current information age, the use of data has become essential for decision making in public health at the local, national, and global level. Despite a global commitment to the use and sharing of public health data, this can be challenging in reality. No systematic framework or global operational guidelines have been created for data sharing in public health. Barriers at different levels have limited data sharing but have only been anecdotally discussed or in the context of specific case studies. Incomplete systematic evidence on the scope and variety of these barriers has limited opportunities to maximize the value and use of public health data for science and policy.Aug 1, 2014
Mapping Health Information System Competencies for Health Workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The Health Information Systems Knowledge Hub’s Working Paper Series is the principal means to disseminate the knowledge products developed by the hub as easily accessible resources that collectively form a lasting repository of the research findings and knowledge generated by the hub’s activities. Working papers are intended to stimulate debate and promote the adoption of best practice for health information systems in the region. The series focuses on a range of knowledge gaps, including new tools, methods and approaches, and raises and debates fundamental issues around the orientation, purpose and functioning of health information systems.Dec 9, 2014
The Journey to Scale: Moving together past digital health pilots
This paper describes a journey toward successful scale in digital health interventions. Along the journey, use of digital tools for health will shift from being a disruptive innovation to being institutionalized as common practice. Our vision is a world where we no longer refer to mHealth or eHealth services, but rather take as a given that digital tools are incorporated seamlessly throughout health systems, enabling greater health impact.
Dec 1, 2014
BLN Design Collaborative Preview, 1st-4th December 2014
Immunization Registry, Peer Learning, Standards, Tools
Global, BLN Design Collaborative Preview, 1st-4th December 2014
As a part of these ongoing efforts, the BLN will host a Design Collaborative meeting from the 1st- 4th of December, 2014, in Lusaka Zambia. The meeting will bring together eHealth personnel from Ministries of Health in ten countries in West, East, Central and Southern Africa, to evaluate requirements and systems for immunization data generation and management.
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