| Name | Building the Bridge from Human Resources Data to Effective Decisions: Ten Pillars of Successful Data |
| Description | The field of health care requires the availability of well-researched knowledge supported by compelling case studies or clinical trials to make sound health-related decisions. This ensures that health innovations and new practices are informed by the best available data and research evidence. However, the same rigor is not necessarily applied in the field of human resources for health (HRH), particularly in using workforce data to make sound strategic, policy and programmatic decisions. As such, a key challenge to human resources (HR) practitioners and policy-makers is to contextualize HR data and information for more effective decision making and subsequently for policy formulation and practice. With external assistance, developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa are beginning to establish better human resources information systems (HRIS) as part of a comprehensive and integrated response to some of the fundamental challenges posed by the health crisis. While this is a positive development, it is equally important to begin thinking about simple, practical approaches for supporting HR planners and senior decision-makers to be effective leadersand managers of HR data. Data-driven decision-making (DDDM) is an ongoing collaborative process of making informed HR policy and management choices based on appropriate analysis of relevant data and information. The purpose of this technical brief is to present ten fundamental and practical pillars to aid HR managers, practitioners and policy analysts in building a bridge from HR data and reports to effective HR policy and management decisions. |
| Tag | IntraHealth, English, technical brief, brief, human resources, decision making, data, health workers, workforce data |
| Filename | techbrief_11.pdf |
| Filesize | 150.84 kB |
| Filetype | pdf (Mime Type: application/pdf) |
| Creator | christopherlindahl |
| Created On: |
01/15/2010 13:49 |
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| Last updated on |
08/03/2011 14:27 |
| Homepage | http://www.intrahealth.org/ |
