Advocacy for Better Integration and Use of Child Health Indicators for Global Monitoring

Kathleen Strong; Jennifer Harris Requejo; Sk Masum Billah; Joanna Schellenberg; Melinda Munos; Marzia Lazzerini; Ambrose Agweyu; Cynthia Boschi-Pinto; Sayaka Horiuchi; Abdoulaye Maiga; Ralf Weigel; Zeina Jamaluddine; Maureen Black; Frances Aboud; Emma Sacks

doi:10.9745/GHSP-D-23-00181

Advocacy for Better Integration and Use of Child Health Indicators for Global Monitoring

Glob Health Sci Pract. 2023 Dec 22;11(6):e2300181. doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-23-00181. Print 2023 Dec 22.

Authors

Kathleen Strong¹, Jennifer Harris Requejo², Sk Masum Billah³, Joanna Schellenberg⁴, Melinda Munos⁵, Marzia Lazzerini^{4

6}, Ambrose Agweyu⁷, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto⁸, Sayaka Horiuchi⁹, Abdoulaye Maiga⁵, Ralf Weigel¹⁰, Zeina Jamaluddine^{4

11}, Maureen Black¹², Frances Aboud¹³, Emma Sacks¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Aging, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. [email protected].
² The World Bank Group, Global Financing Facility, Washington, DC, USA.
³ Maternal and Child Health Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁴ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
⁵ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁶ Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy.
⁷ Health Services Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁸ University Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁹ Center for Birth Cohort Studies, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan.
¹⁰ Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
¹¹ American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
¹² Department of Pediatrics and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
¹³ McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
¹⁴ Consultant, Child Health Accountability Tracking Technical Advisory Group, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Abstract

Making better use of harmonized indicators to monitor child health and well-being at the global level will avoid duplicative monitoring and evaluation exercises, improve evidence-based programming, and preserve resources that can be used to improve the quality of national data collection platforms.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Child
Child Health*
Female
Global Health
Humans
Maternal Health Services*
Pregnancy

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International