In the early 90s, the Cameroon Ministry of Health implemented a National Health Information
System (NHIS) based on a bottom-up approach of manually collecting and reporting health …

Health services are increasingly under pressure to develop information systems that are
responsive to changing health needs and appropriate to service objectives. Developing an …

Objective To describe the status of health information systems in 14 sub-Saharan African
countries of the World Health Organization African Region. Design A questionnaire-based …

Extracted from text... Louisa Williamson and Norah Stoops HISP School of Public Health
University of the Western Cape Using Information for Health This chapter considers a …

Recent decades of improvements to routine health information systems in low-and middle-
income countries (LMICs) have increased the volume of health data collected. However …

Objective To identify key data sources of health information and describe their availability in
countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. Methods An analytical …

Abstract The Ministry of Health in Zanzibar has embarked on Health Information System
development with the aim of streamlining health data collection, storage, analysis and …

The main aims and objectives of this study are, to explore the procedures, tools and
problems related to primary health care data collection, storage, use and information flows …

PROBLEM: In Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania, as in many developing countries,
health managers lack faith in the national Health Management Information System (HMIS) …

Background Management of health data and its use for informed-decision making is a
challenging health sector aspect in developing countries. Monitoring and evaluation of …