UNIVERSITÉ PROTESTANTE DE L’AFRIQUE

DE L'OUEST (UPAO)

NAME: AINA OLUWANISHOLA ELIZABETH

DEPARTMENT: HEALTH INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
COURSE: HEALTH INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
TOPIC : ASSIGNMENT
1. Explain the achievement of using
health care software in the 1980's
and 90's.
The ‘80s produced huge leaps in
health software development. The
introduction of master patient
index(MPI), a database of patient
used across all the department of a
health care organization was also
massive success
This wins then encouraged
software developers to continue
creating with a new focus on
individual department such as
radiology and laboratory.

1b. List the various disciplines

involved in health intervention.
 A. Socio-economic situations
B. Health resources
C. Human capital
D. Epidemiological situation
E. Health service
F. Sectoral situation such as
education,transportation e.t.c
G. Demographic situation

2. L2. List 7 major expected outcome

of good management in Health
management information system
A. Encouraging partnership with
community leaders
B. Set job description and target
for staff
C. Conducting of survey
 D. Secure and unite the resources
needed
E. Help assess demographic
characters
F. Set objective for intervention
programme
G. Organize appropriate training

3. In Egbejila village of ilorin Kwara

state Nigeria, school children were
clinically examined for evidence of
malnutrition and oral health status
in a UNICEF supported programme.
It was found that 80% of the
primary school children were
underweight , 20% had angular
stomatitis and 40% were stunted.
Oral examination shows that 70%
had poor oral hygiene and 20% had
dental caries. What is the health
information you could draw from
the above.

The health information gathered

stated the percentage of each
students which fall under health
deficiencies also stating that 30% of
these students falls under 3 out of
the 4 health deficiencies carried
out by the UNICEF supported
programme in Egbejila village of
ilorin kwara state.
4. What are the relationships
between data and health
information
A. Data becomes information if it
is in a useable form and is used
appropriately.
B. Data forms the basis of
information that is data is a raw
fact about entity.
C. Data are quantitative or
characters while information
are processed data which
pursue decision making process
directed by identifying
problems, evaluating outcomes
and getting ready for
improvement in service
delivery.
 4b. Within the community,
think out 2 major system that
delivers good services to the
people

Answer: health facilities and

materials

5. What is the difference between

routine and ad-hoc?
A routine or regular health information
system is the collection of data which
usually consists of a mechanism
( registration procedure) for collecting the
data as they become available e.g data on
births, marriages, diseases e.t.c while ad-
hoc is a collection of data which is usually in
form of a survey of collected data that is
not available on regular basis, been that the
data collected maybe for research or
administrative purpose.
5b. Enumerate instrument used in
measuring health data
- Apparatus:- measurement is
done with a purely
mechanical device e.g
weighing scale,
spectrometers e.t.c
- Human:- measurement is
done by persons with likely a
little or no involvement of
apparatus
- Mixed:- this is the
combination of human and
apparatus e.g x-ray films,
reading of blood films e.t.c
 5c. What are the major
factors affecting consistency.
- Inherent variation of the
instrument itself.
- Fluctuation in the substance
been measured.
- Observer error
- Inter-observere error that is
observed variation