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Data Collection and Analysis
Why?
Comparing the data you have collected with goals, norms, and standards helps you identify, describe, monitor, or evaluate health service problems. You will learn not only about output or coverage, but also
about impact or satisfaction.
What?
Data collection or documentary compilation are techniques that use existing sources of information to enable an approximation of user needs from the point of view of the health professionals.
How?
Some of the techniques you can use include:
- Collect data from written documents, such as health or management
information systems, clinical reports, registries, daily reports or surveys, cartographic documents, or image and sound documents (for example: interviews, or tape recordings of focus group sessions).
- Different tools can be used such as:
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