Improving the use of health data for health system strengthening

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nutley, Tara ^a   Reynolds, Heidi W ^b  

^a MEASURE Evaluation Project   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Data use; Data informed decision making; Guidance; Health information systems; Health systems strengthening; Logic model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA USE; DATA-INFORMED DECISION MAKING; GUIDANCE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING; HUMAN; LOGIC MODEL; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

DATA USE; DATA-INFORMED DECISION MAKING; GUIDANCE; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING; LOGIC MODEL;

DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880461463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.20001     Document Type: Article

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