Building Capacity for Geo-Enabling Health Information Systems: Supporting Equitable Health Services and Well-Being For ALL
Ebener, Steeve; Roth, Susann; Khetrapal, Sonalini | February 2018
Abstract
Universal health coverage (UHC)—equitable access to quality health services without undue financial hardship—is the stated aim of almost every country in Asia and the Pacific. The effective management and use of geospatial data and technologies (GST, Box 1) support efforts in achieving UHC. They also support the exchange and use of information by systems interoperability, especially in countries with weak registration systems. They enable countries to address health system inefficiencies and inequities, and as such improve health service delivery, planning, and management for better use of health sector resources to leave no one behind.
Citation
Ebener, Steeve; Roth, Susann; Khetrapal, Sonalini. 2018. Building Capacity for Geo-Enabling Health Information Systems: Supporting Equitable Health Services and Well-Being For ALL. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8029. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.PDF ISBN
978-92-9261-087-6
Print ISBN
978-92-9261-086-9
ISSN
2071-7202 (print)
2218-2675 (electronic)
Keywords
Civil Society Development
Infrastructure Development
Infrastructure Development Projects
Technology Development
Underdevelopment
Health Risk
Health for All
Health and Hygiene and the Poor
Quality of Health Care
Public Health
Partnerships in Health Reform
Health Systems
Project finance
Development programs
Development strategy
Government programs
Infrastructure projects
Industrial development
Social change
Sanitation
Diseases
Water Quality
Health Hazards
Health Care Services
Health Standards
Health Service Management
Health Costs
Infrastructure
Central planning
Developing countries
Partnership
Joint venture
Limited partnership
Strategic alliances
Sanitary engineering
Sanitation systems
Sanitation services
Sanitary affairs
Delivery of health care
Prevention of disease
Health status indicators
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