Data collection in nearly all the small developing countries in the Pacific Islands is haphazardly paper-based. Practice or policy decisions or improvements cannot even start where maternity staff cannot even tell you how many low birth-weight babies or stillbirths were born in their hospital in the previous year or what the proportion of their deliveries were by caesarean section. Other disciplines with self-taught clinicians have developed rudimentary databases based on an Excel or Access platforms.
I wonder if there is a database out there we can use in the Pacific Island countries to collect birth data which then can be utilized to generate monthly or annual reports.
Who has programs to your need. Try to Google
HISP
or
The harmonized reproductive health registries initiative (hRHR)
http://www.fhi.no/dokumenter/5fc4a04f75.pdf
Dear Alec,
I'd try both Perinatal Services British Columbia and the Atlee Database (Nova Scotia/Dalhousie University) - both might be willing to partner with you to focus on Pacific Island nations.
Kia ora,
Peter
I am pretty sure that the CDC in the U.S. set up a system. I would contact them. We are trying to help Robin Lim presently in Bali set up one for her midwifery birth centre but she would not have the same conundrums that hospitals would have.
Betty-Anne Daviss, midwife and researcher at the Montfort Hospital in Ottawa, Canada
Hello. You can contact Dr.Rdecindo Lagos who works with databases on fetal growth and perinatal data bases, in the region of La Araucania, Chile.
http://www.paho.org/clap/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=242&lang=en
http://www.clap.ops-oms.org/Installation%20on%20Windows%20Vista.pptx
You may want to know PAHO Regional Perinatal Center (CLAP) ´s experience in more that 35 countries of the Region of Latinamerica and the Caribbean, Since 1982 a Perinatal Information System has been developed and in many countries is the National Standard. You may google it or check a couple of links i attached It is a free domain system that has evolved and from Haiti to Buenos Aires or Bahamas has created very complete data files in maternity hospitals.
a link to a SIP pubblication may be found at
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2805%2975345-9/fulltext
More details looking for Conde Agudelo, Diaz Rossello and Simini as authors.
Best
Franco Simini
Have you found any help from PAHO/WHO ? Were you able to get the SIP system?
Best,
Franco Simini
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