Open AccessAssessing and improving data quality from community health workers: a successful intervention in Neno, Malawi
Author(s) -
Andrew J. Admon,
Junior Bazile,
Henry Makungwa,
M. A. Chingoli,
Lisa R. Hirschhorn,
Matthew Peckarsky,
Jonas Rigodon,
Michael E Herce,
Felix Chingoli,
Preeti Malani,
Bethany HedtGauthier
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
public health action
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2220-8372
DOI - 10.5588/pha.12.0071
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , data quality , medicine , quality (philosophy) , quality assurance , environmental health , usability , data collection , intervention (counseling) , quality management , community health , nursing , public health , computer science , operations management , engineering , statistics , metric (unit) , philosophy , external quality assessment , mathematics , management system , epistemology , pathology , human–computer interaction
A community health worker (CHW) program was established in Neno District, Malawi, in 2007 by Partners In Health in support of Ministry of Health activities. Routinely generated CHW data provide critical information for program monitoring and evaluation. Informal assessments of the CHW reports indicated poor quality, limiting the usefulness of the data.