hitchhiker's guide to community health and information
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Community Health
and Information Chapter Two: Big Data Starts at the
Household
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An Ethiopian Story of How Community became the Data Producers and Users
The Health Extension Workers play crucial role in linking community with the health system
Collect and use individual patient data on Family FoldersTo ensure -a family-centered approach-Continuity of carehttps://vimeo.com/140829594
Data aggregated to generate service statistics
Reported to Health Center
Shared and discussed with the Health Development Army
Health Development Army
Women-centered Networks
Kebele Command Post
The Link -Health Extension
Worker
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Information Flow
Health Extension Worker
Woreda Command
PostHealth Center
Information Collected and Used at Community Level
• Number of new and repeat FP acceptors
• Number of first and fourth ANC visits
• Maternal deaths• Home delivery free in
the week• Number of HC who
didn’t attend delivery at HC this week
• Activities to create home delivery free kebele
• Immunization indicators
• Malaria control, epidemic control activities
• Best practices
What did JSI HMIS Project, Ethiopia contribute to ensuring data use at Community
Operationalize The Family Folder
Introduce Tickler File system
Electronic system for converting Community
data into Big data
Health mangers can now monitor what’s happening at community level
More & more pregnant women receiving ANC 4 by HEWs, but fewer are delivered by HEWs – most go to HC for delivery
SNNP REGIONAL HEALTH BUREAU
The eHMIS allows charts and tables for indicators
& we can drill down to community level, i.e., Health Post data
Managers can identify unusual data and drill down to the HP reporting it Low Birth Weight (LBW) Proportion
Hadero Tunto Zuria WoHO, Hidar 2004 to Tahisas 2005
Ethiopia Community Based Health Information System in SNNPR Featured as one of the Top Ten USIAD HSS Success Stories in 2014
https://hssglobalcall.hsaccess.org/top-cases
Partners Coordination
Logistics
Continuous Capacity Building
Challenges
Leadership & Ownership
Supervision
High staff turn over
