Regional Health Observatory

La Habana, Cuba. March 26 – 28, 2012

Eng. Ramon Martinez, Health Information and Analysis, HSD/HA

Regional Advisory Committee on Health Statistics – CRAES 2012

Content• Overview of the Regional Health Observatory• Progress and achievements• Demonstration of the RHO Portal

Regional Health Observatory

• Regional Health Observatory will be an authoritative source of data and information to support decision-making in health in the Region of the Americas

Vision

Regional Health Observatory

• generate and disseminate data, information, and the scientific evidence to support technical cooperation, planning and programming, decision-making and policy in public health in the Region of the Americas.

Objective

Regional Health Observatory• collection, standardization, integration, and processing of health data and

statistics from countries of the Americas and technical programs across the Organization;

• application of epidemiological methods for documenting health situation and trends, measuring of population health status, inequalities and inequities;

• monitoring progress of health indicators and the achievement of goals; • generating the analytical evidence to support decisions in public health

and guide public health policies; • evaluating the impact of health interventions at regional and national

levels.• Identify public health issues• disseminate health data & information, information products, analytical

results, as well as technical and political recommendations

Functions:

Regional Health Observatory

Plataforma de Información de Salud de OPS

Health Information and Intelligence Platform (PHIP)

Portal of the Regional Health Observatory

Health Analysis and Intelligence team

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Progress and achievementsHealth Information and Intelligence Platform

Progress and achievements

• Regional Mortality datasets. Registered and corrected deaths by five dimensions: country, year of occurrence, sex, age group and underlying cause of death (underlying cause of death, ICD-10 to 4th character)

• Core Health Indicators database

• Datasets from Technical Programs: Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Dengue, Malaria, Immunization

• Estimates of World’s Population, World Population Prospects, 2011, United Nation Population Division.

• World Development Indicators, World Bank 2011

• Official Development Assistance for Health, OECD and IHME

Health Data Warehouse is implemented, currently contains the following datasets:

Progress and achievements

• Health situation and trends in the Region of the Americas • Mortality and causes of death • Maternal health • Child and infant health• Adolescent health• Aging and health• Non-Communicable diseases• Tobacco control

Analyzed & published health themes

Progress and achievements

• It is the means to facilitate access to health data and statistics and to disseminate analytical results, technical and methodological recommendations, briefings of the health situation and trends generated by the RHO.

• It is envisioned as a point of entry to a comprehensive and authoritative set of health data and information from the Region of the Americas.

Portal of the Regional health Observatory

http://www.paho.org/rho

Portal of the Health Observatory• http://www.paho.org • Content

– Health themes– Health data– Country statistics– Reports– Presentations

Health themes• Themes

organized by:• Population

groups• Broad groups

of Diseases

• Plan for the elaboration of health themes

• Information architecture for health themes

• A health theme includes multiple topics

Health Theme: Non-Communicable Diseases

Country Statistics

Reports

Presentations

Challenges & perspectives• To strengthen the health intelligence team• Implementation of the Plan for elaboration of

Health Themes • Establishment of a health analyst community of

practice and establishment of networking• Interoperability between RHO and National

Health Information Systems• PAHO and HSD/HA will continue strengthening

RHO and will work to achieve the RHO vision.