Journal Article

Meeting the Demand for Results and Accountability: A Call for Action on Health Data from Eight Global Health Agencies

Obaid, Thoraya, Sidibe, Michel, Yamada, Tadataka, Kazatchkine, Michel, Schweizer, Julian, Veneman, Ann, Chan, Margaret, Lob-Levyt, Julian

2010

Overview

  Abbreviations: DHS, Demographic and Health Surveys; GAVI, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation; ICD, International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems; IHP+, International Health Partnership; M&E, monitoring and evaluation; MDG, Millennium Development Goal; MICS, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey; NHA, National Health Accounts; SDMX, Standard Data and Metadata eXchange; UNAIDS, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund; UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund; WHO, World Health Organization Margaret Chan is Director-General of the World Health Organization. A commonly used figure, by, for instance, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, is that 5% to 10% of program funds should be invested in data collection, monitoring, evaluation, and operational research; * Improving the efficiency of health information investments by closer collaboration between partners in support of one strong country M&E plan that covers all major disease and health programs and all data sources.\\n Increase Data Access and Use Better access to data and statistics in the public domain could generate important benefits at country and global levels by fostering collaboration and innovation in statistical and analytic methods, both for new data collection and for better use of existing data.

• Publisher: Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subject: Accountability / Acquired immune deficiency syndrome / AIDS / Analysis / Confidentiality / Data Collection - standards / Developing countries / Disease / Efficiency / Global Health / Health care industry / Health facilities / Health services administration / Humans / Information sharing / Information systems / Information Systems - standards / International / International aspects / International Cooperation / LDCs / Malaria / Medical care / Mortality / Public access / Public Health and Epidemiology / Public Health and Epidemiology/Global Health / Public Health and Epidemiology/Health Policy / Public Health and Epidemiology/Health Services Research and Economics / Quality management / Reporting requirements / Studies / Tuberculosis