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Key district health indicators
HST
2007-08-24

There are currently a large number of indicators being collected and used in the health system, however there are certain problems associated with facility-based indicators.

These include:

• they are not optimally used by managers and other health workers
• they are not well understood by managers and health workers
• they are sometimes not standardised
• the data elements on which they are based are not always clear
• the data elements on which they are based are sometimes complex
• the definitions of the indicators are not always clear
• there are too many indicators.

In an attempt to demystify the indicators and to make them more accessible to managers of facilities and to those at higher levels of the system who support facility managers, this booklet has taken the top ten key indicators based on routine facility information and has unpacked them. It is hoped that this publication will make these indicators more easily understandable, will promote greater use of these indicators and will therefore ultimately play a role in improving their quality.

The Key District Health Indicators is available from here

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