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Health Tracking for Improved Humanitarian Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Nancy Mock  and
Richard Garfield
Nancy Mock*
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Department of International Health and Development, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Payson Center for International Development, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Executive Director, Recovery Action Learning Laboratory, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Richard Garfield
Affiliation:
Professor of Clinical International Nursing, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, New York, USA
*
Nancy Mock, DrPH Tulane University, 1440 Canal St., Suite 2200, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA E-mail: nancmock@hotmail.com OR mock@tulane.edu
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Abstract

Presently, there is no shortage of methods for collecting data on populations requiring assistance from humanitarian health interventions. However, utilizing a working group, the authors of this paper have looked at these methods through a critical lens and found that there is need for improvement upon existing systems of data collection and analysis. The authors concluded that efforts to standardize the methods of data collection are needed to achieve universal uniformity, and that more funding should be allocated to analyze the data collected.

Keywords

data collectiondisplacement crisisenumerationhealth tracking effortshumanitarian health informationstatistics
Type
Special Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 2007 , pp. 377 - 383
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2007

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