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In the HMIS, the operational data are aggregated locally for service management and reported to higher levels in the administrative hierarchy. In Nouna, the aggregated data are entered into the computer. The granularity of the data is normally no finer than a month per health facility, except for some diseases under special observation, for which the granularity goes down to a week. As in other HMIS, the quality of the aggregated data can not approach that of a DSS, since data collection is not and may not be the primary activity of the health services. For this reason, the monthly summary reports of the health services, which lie within the focus area of the DSS, are entered again at the center. Via the GIS, it should be fairly easy to link those data to DSS data, which are aggregated to the same level as the HMIS data. Primary benefit of the DSS for the HMIS is here the provision of reliable data on the size of the catchment population of a facility, but can also go beyond that. |
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