1. MEASURE Evaluation Using a Primary Health Care Lens Gabriela Escudero
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Gabriela Escudero
Research Associate
April 2016

2. 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.

3. Global footprint (25+ countries)

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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 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.