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MobiHealth Abdi Barre Anders Bragstad Thomas Hilde Fredrik Haaland Tiwonge Manda Raoul Ntiranyuhura Olav Poppe Our Project Improve work of Malawi community health workers: Replace paper based reporting with mobile phones Make feedback
Abdi Barre Anders Bragstad Thomas Hilde Fredrik Haaland Tiwonge Manda Raoul Ntiranyuhura Olav Poppe
Improve work of Malawi community health workers: Replace paper based reporting with mobile phones Make feedback easier Use DHIS software
Ranks 164 at the UN's Human development index. It is categorized into the Low-Human-Development countries 44,4% chance for a child to die before reaching 40 years. Life expectancy is between 52 and 54 years. The prevalence of HIV is 11,9%. 17% of the child-deaths is caused by Malaria.
We want to facilitate feedback to HSAs More knowlede leads to better decision Seeing data being used is incentive for accurate reporting Data quality is improved
Time consuming to compile reports, therefore: Only quarterly meetings for giving feedback Reports have tables and figures only
Digital data is easier to process DHIS 2 can compile reports in seconds Monthly (or weekly) feedback possible + Instant feedback possible with SMS/Phone
The current way of collecting data
Developing countries often lack electricity. Most information is stored on papers.
The HSA Home Visiting Form is filled out by a Health Surveilance Assistant (HSA) when visiting a pregnant woman.
There are 7 groups of data, and they were grouped based on the natural borders presented in the form: O Mothers data O HSA data O Visiting data O Danger Signs O Additional data O Birth plan O Supervisor approval data
DHIS terminology: An datafield in the form is represented by a Data Element A Data Group consists of one or many Data Elements One or more Data Groups can be assigned to a Data Set
A Data Element would i.e. be the "Name" of the mother All Data Elements conserning the mother would make the Data Group 'Mothers Information' All of the Data Groups would make the Data Set representing the form.
All papers, having all the information, all the time, results in a lot of replicated data. Name-based DHIS can register users and programs.
Long distance Lack of valid information Learning DHIS DHIS unstability issues
Infrastructure Lack of technical expertise Lack of resources (especially financial) Gaining political support Integration with existing HIS