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Countries and the international community through the Sustainable Development Goals have set themselves ambitious targets for improving health and social protection. But in many countries, basic statistics such as who is born and who dies or information on important indicators such as new infections with a virus or service coverage are lacking or patchy. Without reliable and consistent information, policy makers and service managers cannot make informed decisions about where to target resources or which interventions work.
Secure, connected and digitized health and social protection systems can reduce such inefficiencies, improve access, reduce costs, increase quality, and personalize services. They can ensure crucial data are available almost immediately at local and central level, for example, to ensure poor families obtain the support they are entitled to, to detect and manage disease outbreaks, to set up and run health insurance schemes or to manage the maintenance of high-tech medical equipment.
German Development Cooperation aims at enabling its partner countries to use the potential of digital technology to build scalable, sustainable and interoperable digital health and social protection systems. Check the selected readings listed below to get an overview.
Selected readings from the Healthy DEvelopments portal
- University hospital partnerships tackle tuberculosis in Africa (In focus, 2020)
- Hacking Against Outbreaks in West Africa (InFocus, 2020)
- Going the last digital mile in Malawi (InFocus, 2019)
- Digitalising Nepal’s health sector - A country’s journey towards an interoperable digital health ecosystem (Case study, 2018)
- Using digitalisation to improve health data quality in Nepal (Project story, 2018)
- Malawi’s bold vision for a Unified Social Registry (InFocus article, 2018)
- Bringing the power of digital data to rural Nepal (InFocus article, 2018)
- Hospital inventory and maintenance in Uzbekistan go digital (In focus article, 2017)
- Improving climate-sensitive disease surveillance in Grenada (In focus article, 2017)
- Game changer: Automated pharmacy dispensing in South Africa (In focus article, 2017)
- Open source software for social health insurance (In focus article, 2017)
- What’s the way forward for digital health in development? (Event, 2017)
- The power of information: Better data smooths the way for the post-earthquake reconstruction of health facilities in Nepal (In Focus article, 2016)
- Catalysing change in Tanzania’s hospitals: A Computer Assisted Hospital Management System increases revenue and improves services (In Focus article, 2016)
- What does it mean for my sister or daughter? The Health Data Collaborative launches in Kenya (article, 2016)
- Following the roadmap to better health data: Germany’s support to health information systems in Nepal and Malawi (In Focus article, 2015)
- A Quiet Revolution: Strengthening the Routine Health Information System in Bangladesh (Case study, GHPC, 2014)
- Core Set of Indicators & Indicator Data Sheets for Health and Social Health Protection (2012)