Data for health and sustainable development
Working with countries to improve health data and build capacity to track progress towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals.
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Building Country Capacity for Data Analysis and Use
In many countries, the quality of data gathered at health facilities and capacity to analyse and use this data remains inadequate to support decision-making that will accelerate Universal Health Coverage. A number of partners, programmes and countries have been trying to address this problem through fragmented efforts such as single disease-focused facility surveys and parallel data systems. Now, HDC partners have come together to establish a harmonized approach to strengthening facility-based data quality, analysis and use.
- 25 Oct
Global Conference on Primary Health Care (40th Anniversary of Alma-Ata Declaration)
- 22 Oct
UN World Data Forum
- 31 Oct
Malawi HDC annual meeting (date tbc)
The health-related Sustainable Development Goals
Learn about the health-related targets of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
NEWLY UPDATED: The global reference list of 100 core health indicators
One of the first products of the Health Data Collaborative, now with health-related SDG indicators.
Health Data Collaborative Progress Report 2016-2017
Highlights, lessons learned, future perspectives
Update on Health Data Collaborative global public goods
View an overview presentation.
Only 50% of countries reported cause-of-death data to WHO in 2014
More than 100 countries don't accurately count births and deaths
Donors request reporting on hundreds of health indicators that fall outside of priorities set by health ministries
Global health partners have developed at least 8 separate health facility survey tools collecting overlapping information
Fragmented health data systems hamper effective use of data during disease outbreaks
