Health tracking for improved humanitarian performance.
Presently, there is no shortage of methods for collecting data on populations requiring assistance from humanitarian health interventions. However, utilizing a working group, the authors of this paper have looked at these methods through a critical lens and found that there is need for improvement upon existing systems of data collection and analysis. The authors concluded that efforts to standardize the methods of data collection are needed to achieve universal uniformity, and that more funding should be allocated to analyze the data collected.
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Nancy
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Department of International Health and Development, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Payson Center for International Development, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA. nancmock@hotmail.com
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Richard
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D000533:Altruism; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States