National health information systems for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will require data-driven public health action. There are limited publications on national health information systems that continuously generate health data. Given the need to develop these systems, we summarised their current status in low-income and middle-income countries.

Setting

The survey team jointly developed a questionnaire covering policy, planning, legislation and organisation of case reporting, patient monitoring and civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems. From January until May 2017, we administered the questionnaire to key informants in 51 Centers for Disease Control country offices. Countries were aggregated for descriptive analyses in Microsoft Excel.

Results

Key informants in 15 cou

SUBMITTER: Suthar AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6530305 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature