Health information systems training: University of Dar es Salaam implementation experience
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Date
2007
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Abstract
Every health worker collects data while delivering health services. This information will later inform the society about the population’s health status, for instance as diseases statistics. A shift towards decentralization in many low-income countries implies that more skills are demanded of primary health care workers, including data and information handling. There is a need to build capacity to deal with health information and one way of doing that is by introducing courses related to health information system. This paper reports the experience obtained and lesson learnt while implementing the nine month programme: Health Management Information System Course at the University of Dar es Salaam during the first two years. The course aims to understand the development of Health information system in order to strengthen health management in developing countries. The emphasis is placed on the teaching module that combined the theory, cross-country cooperation and research at the work place of participants. Through the students’ own research projects, it was learnt that there is a problem of data quality at district levels and this could be attributed to poor HMIS training to health workers dealing with data management at various levels of health sector. What we have learned from this course is that there is a need to develop different course modules for different participants. We conclude by recommending the establishment of similar courses in different places.
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Full-text Article. Also available at https://www.academia.edu/9703777
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Health Services, Health worker, Health information system, Developing country
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SHIDENDE, N. H. (2007). Health Information Systems Training: University of Dar es Salaam Implementation Experience.