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Enhancing Health Management with DHIS in South Africa

This presentation in June 2003 by Dr. Vincent Shaw provides an overview of the District Health Information System (DHIS) and its purpose in the South African health system. It showcases the use of DHIS for managerial purposes at various levels, including national, district, municipality, and facility levels, with a focus on indicators like Fully Immunised rates. The presentation includes information on reporting units, data analysis, and the flexibility of DHIS to incorporate survey data, alongside challenges and recommendations for data expansion.

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Enhancing Health Management with DHIS in South Africa

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  1. Presentation to Health Portfolio Committee District Health Information System in South Africa Dr Vincent Shaw Health Information Systems Programme June 2003

  2. Overview and Purpose of Presentation • Purpose of presentation: • To demonstrate the use of the DHIS for managerial purposes at all levels within the health system; • To indicate the difference in certain indicators (Fully immunised) between the RDS sites and rest of the country Overview: Reporting units in SA Analysis of data (using Fully Immunised as an example) at the following levels: National level District Municipality level Health District level Facility level

  3. The reporting units for the DHIS

  4. Pack of documents: Information on: • Copy of this presentation • Table of selected indicators • HISP • DHIS • Data flow policy (NHISSA)

  5. Concluding remarks: • We have 2 years of complete and fairly good quality data on PHC services • DHIS has been used for routine health information • But can also include survey data • Is flexible and open (data elements and indicators, and facilities can be added)

  6. Concluding remarks: • Challenge is to: • encourage managers to use the data to manage and plan services • improve data quality • Dataset needs to be expanded to include: • Hospital data • Environmental health services • Financial information • Personnel • Transport

  7. Immunisation Coverage 2001 Immunisation Coverage 2002

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