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 and Universal Health Coverage.
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Harmonizing Health Facility Assessments in Kenya
Availability of comprehensive information on service availability and readiness of facilities to offer quality health services is key in informing policies to achieve Universal Health Coverage. For this reason, Kenya's Ministry of Health, together with development partners and counties, has planned to carry out a Harmonized Health Facility Assessment.
- 25 Oct
Global Conference on Primary Health Care (40th Anniversary of Alma-Ata Declaration)
- 22 Oct
UN World Data Forum
- 08 Nov
Malawi HDC annual meeting
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 2016-2018
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
