Health Tracking for Improved Humanitarian Performance

Author(s)
Mock, N and R Garfield
Publication language
English
Date published
01 Oct 2007
Publisher
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, September–October 2007
Type
Articles
Keywords
Evidence, Health

Presently, there is no shortage of methods for collecting data on populations requiring assistance from humanitarian health interventions. However, utilizing a working group, the authors of this paper have looked at these methods through a critical lens and found that there is need for improvement upon existing systems of data collection and analysis. The authors concluded that efforts to standardize the methods of data collection are needed to achieve universal uniformity, and that more funding should be allocated to analyze the data collected.