South Africa:monitoring

health systems performance at

sub-national level

South Africa:monitoring

health systems performance at

sub-national level

Candy Daycandy@hst.org.za

January 2010

3 key findings / lessons Considering inequities when measuring

performance The power and pitfalls of routine data Integration of data

Inequities

Inequities - Relative change in expenditure per capita

Improvement in equity:

Reducing ratio between max/min expenditure and between top and bottom socio-economic quintiles

Routine data - outliers

Routine data – Limitations for rare events

Data integration

Validation Greater

explanation Issues:

linking, quality, timeliness, classification

Integration, routine data, inequity

THANK YOU!

Candy Day

candy@hst.org.za

http://www.hst.org.za