Total Recorded Monitoring DHIS Sum of: Accuracy Output Sum Quarterly No Higher levels All Hospital Hospital completion of the service dependant of uptake Programmes Inpatient Separations treatment and/or volumes on quality of may indicate deaths the data from an increased Inpatient accommodation of reporting burden of a patient in all facility disease, or hospitals (district, greater Inpatient regional, tertiary reliance on transfer and central) public health out Separations system Day include inpatients patient who were discharged, transferred out to other hospitals or who died and includes Day Patients. TABLE 3: MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS Indicator Short Purpose/ Source Method of Data Type of Calculation Reporting New Desired Indicator Title Definition Importance Calculation Limitations Indicator Type Cycle Indicator Performance Responsibility Prevalence A child under 5 Essential Accuracy Lower levels Health DHIS Numerator Outcome Percentage Quarterly No of years identified for growth dependent of Information, Number of underweight as being monitoring on quality Epidemiology prevalence of (children BELOW the of data from in children children underweight and Research under 5) third centile but reporting underweight (children Programme EQUAL TO or facility for age under 5) OVER 60% of during the Estimated reporting are desired Nutrition Weight for Age period Programme (EWA) on the Road-to-Health chart. Include Denominator any such child Maternal, Child irrespective of Number of and Women’s the reason for children Health the underweight weighed Programme - during the malnourishment, reporting premature birth, period genetic disorders etc.
Total Hospital Separations Recorded completion of treatment and/or the accommodation of a patient in all hospitals (district, regional, tertiary and central) Separations include inpatients who were discharged, transferred out to other hospitals or who died and includes Day Patients. Monitoring the service volumes DHIS Sum of: Inpatient deaths Inpatient Inpatient transfer out Day patient Accuracy dependant on quality of data from reporting facility Output Sum Quarterly No Higher levels of uptake may indicate an increased burden of disease, or greater reliance on public health system All Hospital Programmes TABLE 3: MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS Indicator Title Short Definition Purpose/ Importance Source Method of Calculation Data Limitations Type of Indicator Calculation Type Reporting Cycle New Indicator Desired Performance Indicator Responsibility Prevalence of underweight (children under 5) A child under 5 years identified as being BELOW the third centile but EQUAL TO or OVER 60% of Estimated Weight for Age (EWA) on the Road-to-Health chart. Include any such child irrespective of the reason for the underweight - malnourishment, premature birth, genetic disorders etc. Essential for growth monitoring in children DHIS Numerator Number of children underweight for age during the reporting period Denominator Number of children weighed during the reporting period Accuracy dependent on quality of data from reporting facility Outcome Percentage Quarterly No Lower levels of prevalence of underweight (children under 5) are desired Health Information, Epidemiology and Research Programme Nutrition Programme Maternal, Child and Women’s Health Programme