Health Information System
WHO supports countries to build comprehensive and efficient systems and capacities to generate and utilize health data to monitor health risks and determinants, evaluate health system performance and functionality, identify morbidity and mortality patterns, and assess health status and inequalities.
In the WHO African Region, national health information systems lack sufficient and sustainable capacity to produce timely, high-quality, disaggregated data for decision-making. Data fragmentation across multiple data systems, lack of interoperability and lack of data governance have been identified as a major cause of data underutilization.
To address these challenges, WHO in the African Region is developing a Regional Data Hub (RDHUB) with a vision to promote evidence-based decision-making towards health outcomes.
WHO engages in high-level advocacy with governments and development partners to:
- Regional data hub: coordinate the development of a regional data hub to integrate health data across multiple systems at regional and national level and promote advanced analytics for evidence-based decision-making.
- Data governance: lead the finalization of the Data Governance Framework to standardize and regulate data use, privacy and security in the region.
- Investment in data systems: increase investments in systems and capacities for data, prioritizing the use of digital infrastructure.
- Data-driven culture: promote a data-driven culture at all levels to enhance evidence-based decision-making.
- Country support: support countries to generate key data and analyze and use them for informed decision-making.
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