Plan for April 18: Time: ¡­

Plan for April 18:

Time: 09:15-10:00 Place: Veglabben Topic: Course introduction

Time: 10:15-11:00 Place: Veglabben Topic: Millennium Development Goals and Health Care

Time: 11:15-12:00 Place: Veglabben Topic: General introduction to Health Information Systems

Background readings available online:

Progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, 1990-2005

WHO and the Millennium Development Goals

Why Health Care Information Systems Succeed or Fail, Richard Heeks, David Mundy and Angel Salazar

Health information systems: the foundations of public health, Carla AbouZahr & Ties Boerma

Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2005;83:632-639. Round Table (Vincent Shaw, J?rn Braa, and others)

Introduction to a Health Information System, Arthur Heywood

The Information Cycle: Collecting Data, Arthur Heywood