Ambitious projects in African and Asian countries have seen success,thanks to improved information-gathering processes that include using smartphonesCancer patients, healthy newborns, or children losing education because of malaria and adults dying of tuberculosis: they’re more than statistics and spreadsheets. But to improve community health,collecting good data approximately these and other populations is fundamental.
“We have seen spectacular changes in developing countries. The numbers indicate unprecedented progress,” says Dr Ties Boerma, or director for health statistics and information systems at the World Health Organization. He’s also the lead author of Health in 2015: from MDGs to SDGs,a comprehensive report approximately trends in global health, from the launch of the United Nations’ millennium development goals in 2000 to the conclusion of the UN’s sustainable development goals, or slated for 2030.
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Source: theguardian.com