Healthcare Management

study of the health information systems at local levels in Tanzania and Mozambique: Improving use and management

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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 and to offer
ideas and suggestions on how to improve the systems of routine data collection, storage,
analysis and use of information and more generally to improve the flows of information and
health care information systems. The study also provides a comparison between the results of
the field studies in two developing countries: Tanzania and Mozambique.
The study employed qualitative research methods, including ethnographic methods;
interviews, observations in the health facilities settings, analysis of patient records for
varying recording tools and content, reviews of documents, and the analysis of existing
computer systems within the health information systems in study. The study was carried out in
Xai – Xai district, Chokwe district, Chibuto district and Bilene district in Gaza province, in
Mozambique (April to May 2002), and Kibaha district in Coastal region, in Tanzania (June to
August 2002).
This research focuses on the various information flows originating at the local health facility,
how the data are collected and stored, use or/and non-use of data, sharing or communication
of important information between primary health care and hospital levels, data flows from the
health facilities to the districts to the region or province and to the national level.

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study of the health information systems at local levels in Tanzania and Mozambique: Improving use and management

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Publisher

: ., 2003

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1-167

Language

English

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HealthCare Management

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