MEASURE Evaluation Using a Primary Health Care Lens Gabriela Escudero Photo credit: Jane Silcock / USAID Gabriela Escudero Research Associate April 2016
Project overview Global, five-year, $180M cooperative agreement Strategic objective: To strengthen health information systems - the capacity to gather, interpret, and use data - so countries can make better decisions and sustain good health outcomes over time.
Global footprint (25+ countries)
Primary health care (PHC) areas under MEASURE Evaluation Almost one-third (74/254) of our activities address PHC and focus primarily on: Organizing health services around needs Community-based care Facility-based care Reducing exclusion and social disparities Gender and key populations
Select approaches to improving PHC measurement Focus on Health Information Systems (HIS) Developing indicators of HIS performance Data quality Data use Evaluation (qualitative and quantitative) Gender and key populations interventions Development and use of innovative methods Geo-spatial methods Organizational network analysis Big data Capacity-building
Improving measurement of PHC quality in Bangladesh Testing the use of hand-held tablets by community health workers for improved health service provision and improved data quality
MEASURE Evaluation is funded by the U. S MEASURE Evaluation is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under terms of Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-L-14-00004 and implemented by the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partnership with ICF International, John Snow, Inc., Management Sciences for Health, Palladium, and Tulane University. The views expressed in this presentation do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States government. www.measureevaluation.org