Meeting the demand for results and accountability: a call for action on health data from eight global health agencies

Margaret Chan; Michel Kazatchkine; Julian Lob-Levyt; Thoraya Obaid; Julian Schweizer; Michel Sidibe; Ann Veneman; Tadataka Yamada

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000223

Meeting the demand for results and accountability: a call for action on health data from eight global health agencies

PLoS Med. 2010 Jan 26;7(1):e1000223. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000223.

Authors

Margaret Chan¹, Michel Kazatchkine, Julian Lob-Levyt, Thoraya Obaid, Julian Schweizer, Michel Sidibe, Ann Veneman, Tadataka Yamada

Affiliation

¹ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. porria@who.int

Abstract

Margaret Chan, Director-General of the WHO, and the heads of seven other global health agencies, call for a concerted global effort to collect better health data.

MeSH terms

Data Collection / standards*
Global Health*
Humans
Information Systems / standards*
International Cooperation*
Research*