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Information systems and health planning are relatively neglected areas of health policy and system research.

Collecting high quality routine information and using this information to plan and evaluate health services is critical for health system strengthening.

To optimise the use of public resources in mixed health systems, it is vital to understand the activities of all the actors that are involved in producing health, bringing a vision of health that is aligned with a social determinants perspective and with multi-sectoral targets such as the sustainable development goals.

This podcast outlines a series of articles in Health Policy and Planning on a new model for a 'Data-Informed Platform for Health' which would bring together routine information from the public and private sectors on health care inputs and processes including service delivery, that could inform decision making, priority setting and planning at the district level, and assist in the evaluation of maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) services.

Presenter: Natasha Salaria

Guests: Bilal Avan, Deepthi Wickremasinghe, Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Meenakshi Gautham, Della Berhanu, Joanna Schellenberg and Kara Hanson.

Produced by Natasha Salaria and Rhys Williams. 

Music: 'Mother Nature' by Scott Holmes licensed under Creative Commons. 

Film and Documentary

Strengthening #MNCH systems - a new model for data platforms

Read more: bit.ly/2bHA0Z0

Information systems and health planning are relatively neglected areas of health policy and system research.

Collecting high quality routine information and using this information to plan and evaluate health services is critical for health system strengthening.

To optimise the use of public resources in mixed health systems, it is vital to understand the activities of all the actors that are involved in producing health, bringing a vision of health that is aligned with a social determinants perspective and with multi-sectoral targets such as the sustainable development goals.

This podcast outlines a series of articles in Health Policy and Planning on a new model for a 'Data-Informed Platform for Health' which would bring together routine information from the public and private sectors on health care inputs and processes including service delivery, that could inform decision making, priority setting and planning at the district level, and assist in the evaluation of maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) services.

Presenter: Natasha Salaria

Guests: Bilal Avan, Deepthi Wickremasinghe, Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Meenakshi Gautham, Della Berhanu, Joanna Schellenberg and Kara Hanson.

Produced by Natasha Salaria and Rhys Williams.

Music: 'Mother Nature' by Scott Holmes licensed under Creative Commons.

District decision making for health in low income settings- - a new model for data platforms

Dr Alan Dangour from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discusses how changes in human diet, particularly the increasing consumption of meat, are affecting our environment and accelerating the release of greenhouse gas emissions.

Alan Dangour: How human diets are impacting climate change.

Dr Karl Blanchet discusses the need for better quality evidence to inform public health interventions during humanitarian crises.

The evidence review he discusses in this podcast was authored by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and commissioned by Elrha’s Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises Programme (R2HC), which is funded by DFID and the Wellcome Trust. 

Image credit: UNHCR / Olivier Laban-Mattei

District decision making for health in low income settings- - a new model for data platforms

Health Policy and Planning

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