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Fighting Health Inequalities through User-friendly Data Presentation
December 2006
Boster G. Sibande
Medical Informatics Association of Malawi
This paper outlines how data from a community scorecard can be effectively presented to influence policy change in the fight against health inequalities in rural areas of African countries. The scorecard enables dialogue between service providers and users to deal with non discrimination in drug dispensing, in the overall treatment of patients, in the provision of supplementary food and maintaining a first-come first-served policy. The participatory rights based methodology built by organizations of rural health care consumers are able to identify and address priority health issues. Appropriate presentation of scorecard data can lead to increased access to services by the community, increased access to information by service users, build dialogue between
service users and providers, encourage participation in decision making, and improve the capacity of service users to claim their right to health.
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