Research project idea (question, title, topic, or idea) | - Evaluation of the routine health information system in central Mozambique.
This study aims to provide a systematic understanding of the functioning of routine data systems, which will feed into HAI efforts to improve these data systems. The evaluation would cover the information system continuum, including the validity of data registries, reliability of data entry, and consistency of paper and computerized reporting mechanisms. - Analysis of patient flow in the health system in Mozambique.
This project explores routine data to describe service utilization across different elements of the health system. Examples include measuring 1. Referral patterns and outcomes for obstetric care or 2. Utilization of HIV services (VCT, pMTCT, care and treatment, community follow-up, etc), major sources and determinants to lost to follow-up. - Time motion study describing the patient's experience with primary health care services.
This thesis is part of a larger initiative to understand health system readiness and patient and provider satisfaction, and involves measuring clinic functioning from the patient perspective (waiting times, consult times, and proportion of patients turned away from routine health services). - Case-control study of factors associated with loss to follow up in the HIV care and treatment system in Mozambique.
This study endeavors to further understand why patients are lost to follow-up from the HIV care and treatment system, and will require tracing patients lost to follow-up to understand health system, community and patient-level factors that are associated with lack of clinical continuity. |