Health Facility Assessment Methods
Flow Chart of Steps to Conduct a Health Facility Assessment
The flow chart is a step-by-step guide, in visual form, of key stages in the preparation and conduct of a health facility assessment (HFA). It has two parts, the first being a short presentation of the actual stages, the people involved in them, any documentation available for more details, and any special considerations. The second part is a narrative description of issues related to each stage, and information to help the reader understand how each stage is connected to the preceding and subsequent stages.
Guidance for Selecting and Using Core Indicators for Cross-Country Comparisons of Health Facilities
Specifies minimum data required for assessing health facility status for service delivery; facilitates cross-country comparisons; specifies an easy, do-it-yourself process for selecting minimum data for assessing performance.
Pillars of Health Facility Assessments: An Illustrative Capacity-Building Curriculum for Mid- and Senior-Level Managers
This three-day workshop curriculum is designed to reinforce the importance of health facility data collection as an essential component of health information systems. With this knowledge, participants will be in a better position to advocate effective health facility assessments in their home-country contexts.
Prevention and Service Availability Mapping (PSAM)
PSAM quantifies, estimates, and maps HIV-prevention efforts. This is a district-owned facility monitoring systems, and is highly adaptable.
Profiles of Health Facility Assessment Methods
Profiles of Health Facility Assessment Methods increases utilization of facility-based information for decision making about investments in health systems and services.
The instruments used for health facility assessment are the main national- and program-level protocols for facility-based assessment in the field.
Sampling Manual for Facility Surveys for Population, Maternal Health, Child Health and STD Programs in Developing Countries
This manual presents a sampling methodology which can generate estimates of health facilities and their characteristics. It can also be used to tie characteristics of the sampled facilities to those of the serviced population. This manual proposes and recommends two sampling designs. The first is for a stand-alone health facility survey, and the second is for a health facility survey linked to a household survey. Both recommended sampling designs provide unbiased estimates of facilities and their characteristics. However, the linked sampling design provides additional information on the health service environment for resident populations in the household survey sample areas.