District decision-making for health in low-income settings: a systematic literature review.

ABSTRACT: Health management information systems (HMIS) produce large amounts of data about health service provision and population health, and provide opportunities for data-based decision-making in decentralized health systems. Yet the data are little-used locally. A well-defined approach to district-level decision-making using health data would help better meet the needs of the local population. In this second of four papers on district decision-making for health in low-income settings, our aim was to explore ways in which district administrators and health managers in low- and lower-middle-income countries use health data to make decisions, to describe the decision-making tools they used and identify challenges encountered when using these tools. A systematic literature review, following PRISMA g

SUBMITTER: Wickremasinghe D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5009221 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature