Harmonizing Data Visualizations on Child Health and Well-Being to Strengthen Advocacy and Monitoring Efforts

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

doi:10.9745/GHSP-D-23-00183

Harmonizing Data Visualizations on Child Health and Well-Being to Strengthen Advocacy and Monitoring Efforts

Glob Health Sci Pract. 2023 Dec 22;11(6):e2300183. doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-23-00183. Print 2023 Dec 22.

Authors

Jennifer Harris Requejo^{1

2}, Kathleen Strong³, Frances Aboud⁴, Ambrose Agweyu⁵, Sk Masum Billah⁶, Maureen Black⁷, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto⁸, Sayaka Horiuchi⁹, Zeina Jamaluddine^{10

11}, Marzia Lazzerini^{10

12}, Abdoulaye Maiga², Melinda Munos², Joanna Schellenberg¹⁰, Ralf Weigel¹³, Emma Sacks¹⁴; Child Health Accountability Technical Advisory Group

Affiliations

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

Abstract

Data visualization tools on child health have improved data accessibility but caused confusion over indicator data sources and which tools to use for specific purposes. We propose principles for generating future tools that can effectively trigger action and accountability for children everywhere.

MeSH terms

Child
Child Health*
Data Visualization*
Humans

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International