Project Title: Community-based Digital Surveillance System (CDSS) to Monitor Population Health - A Feasibility Study
Project Description: In recent years, major investment has been made in Tanzania to improve national civil registration and vital statistics systems to generate population-level data for local and national planning, and to improve access to public health services. This includes training cadres of community health workers, initiating pilot projects to conduct verbal autopsies for all deaths within specific geographic areas to ascertain proportional cause-of-death data [Data for Health initiative (D4H)], initiatives to collect and standardize summaries of... In recent years, major investment has been made in Tanzania to improve national civil registration and vital statistics systems to generate population-level data for local and national planning, and to improve access to public health services. This includes training cadres of community health workers, initiating pilot projects to conduct verbal autopsies for all deaths within specific geographic areas to ascertain proportional cause-of-death data [Data for Health initiative (D4H)], initiatives to collect and standardize summaries of key indicators from hospital and health facilities (HMIS/DHIS-2), and establishment of electronic systems for data and records collection in hospitals and health facilities (GOT-HOMIS). National programs and international partners have also engaged in new efforts to improve civil registration and to develop and implement a system for uniquely identifying each citizen with a national identification number and card. Despite the existence of national and local systems, registration of vital events remains relatively limited even when national systems exist to register both birth and deaths, individuals are often unaware of the existence of systems do not know how to access registration services, lack the skills or resources to access and navigate systems, or fail to identify individual benefits from registration.
Principal Investigator : Sigilbert Mrema
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Time frame: (2020-05-31) - (2021-01-31)
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Normal)
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