TOPICS TO BE COVERED

MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO DHIS 2 AND INFORMATION USE

• Health information management and related concepts
• Different kind of data needed by health planners and decision makers
• Sources of data
• Legal and ethical requirement
• Benefits of using DHIS2
• Organizational units
• Information cycle

1. Exercise: List the information systems that the health system uses

MODULE 2: BASIC USE AND FUNCTION OF DHIS2 SOFTWARE

• Installation of DHIS 2
• Key terms
• Components of DHIS2
• Strategy for getting started
• Indicators
• Data element
• Data sets and data entry forms
• Data set management
• Data set categories
• Adding a new section form
• Customs forms
• Scripting in custom forms
• Data assignment editor
• Pivot table design
• Connecting to the DHIS2 data base
• Dealing with large amounts of data
• The my datamart tool

1. Exercise : Producing pivot tables

• Data visualization
• Charts and graphs
• Charts and dashboards

1. Exercise :Building charts

MODULE 3: DATA DESIGN AND DATA COLLECTION

• Data set
• Data set management
• Data set categories
• Data entry forms
• Adding a new section form
• Customs forms
• Scripting in custom forms
• Data assignment editor

1. Exercise: Data entry

MODULE 4: GIS MAPS

• Introduction to GIS
• Usefulness of GIS maps
• Thematic layer
• Maps consideration
• Editing and navigation

1. Exercise: creating maps in DHIS2

MODULE 5: DATA QUALITY AND VALIDATION

• Measuring data quality
• Reasons for poor data quality
• What makes quality data
• Common data quality check
• Data validation analysis
• Validation rules
• Improving data quality

1. Exercise : Using DHIS 2 to improve data quality

MODULE 6: IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY

• Data analysis processing
• Data maintenance and managing changes to the database
• Meta-data set up
• Import and export of data
• Aggregation
• Preparing repots and other information products