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Routine Health Information Utilization and Associated Factors among Health Professionals Working in Public Health Facilities of the South Region, Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Routine health information is the pillar for planning and management of health services and plays a vital role in effective and efficient health service delivery, decision making, and the improvement of programs. Therefore, this study aimed to assess routine health information utilizatio...

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Autores principales: Sako, Sewunet, Gilano, Girma, Chisha, Yilma, Shewangizaw, Misgun, Fikadu, Teshale
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Research and Publications Office of Jimma University 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9175220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35693583
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v32i2.24
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author Sako, Sewunet
Gilano, Girma
Chisha, Yilma
Shewangizaw, Misgun
Fikadu, Teshale
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Gilano, Girma
Chisha, Yilma
Shewangizaw, Misgun
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description BACKGROUND: Routine health information is the pillar for planning and management of health services and plays a vital role in effective and efficient health service delivery, decision making, and the improvement of programs. Therefore, this study aimed to assess routine health information utilization and associated factors among health professionals working in public health facilities of the south region. METHODS: Institution based cross-sectional study design was employed. Data was collected from randomly selected 719 participants using a pre-tested, interviewer administered structured questionnaire. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were carried out. RESULT: The overall utilization of routine health information was 63.1. Place of residence, HMIS personnel, HMIS code, overwhelming data source, population based data, data quality control, feedback, monitoring chart, 8.467) and data transfer policy were factors significantly associated with utilization of routine health information. CONCLUSION: Six out of ten health professionals had utilized routine health information. Place of residence, HMIS personnel, HMIS code, overwhelming data source, population based data, data quality control, feedback, monitoring chart and data transfer policy had significant associations with routine health information utilization. Therefore, concerned health authorities need to work on these factors to improve the utilization.
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spelling pubmed-91752202022-06-10 Routine Health Information Utilization and Associated Factors among Health Professionals Working in Public Health Facilities of the South Region, Ethiopia Sako, Sewunet Gilano, Girma Chisha, Yilma Shewangizaw, Misgun Fikadu, Teshale Ethiop J Health Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: Routine health information is the pillar for planning and management of health services and plays a vital role in effective and efficient health service delivery, decision making, and the improvement of programs. Therefore, this study aimed to assess routine health information utilization and associated factors among health professionals working in public health facilities of the south region. METHODS: Institution based cross-sectional study design was employed. Data was collected from randomly selected 719 participants using a pre-tested, interviewer administered structured questionnaire. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were carried out. RESULT: The overall utilization of routine health information was 63.1. Place of residence, HMIS personnel, HMIS code, overwhelming data source, population based data, data quality control, feedback, monitoring chart, 8.467) and data transfer policy were factors significantly associated with utilization of routine health information. CONCLUSION: Six out of ten health professionals had utilized routine health information. Place of residence, HMIS personnel, HMIS code, overwhelming data source, population based data, data quality control, feedback, monitoring chart and data transfer policy had significant associations with routine health information utilization. Therefore, concerned health authorities need to work on these factors to improve the utilization. Research and Publications Office of Jimma University 2022-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9175220/ /pubmed/35693583 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v32i2.24 Text en © 2022 Sewunet Sako, et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Chisha, Yilma
Shewangizaw, Misgun
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Routine Health Information Utilization and Associated Factors among Health Professionals Working in Public Health Facilities of the South Region, Ethiopia
title Routine Health Information Utilization and Associated Factors among Health Professionals Working in Public Health Facilities of the South Region, Ethiopia
title_full Routine Health Information Utilization and Associated Factors among Health Professionals Working in Public Health Facilities of the South Region, Ethiopia
title_fullStr Routine Health Information Utilization and Associated Factors among Health Professionals Working in Public Health Facilities of the South Region, Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Routine Health Information Utilization and Associated Factors among Health Professionals Working in Public Health Facilities of the South Region, Ethiopia
title_short Routine Health Information Utilization and Associated Factors among Health Professionals Working in Public Health Facilities of the South Region, Ethiopia
title_sort routine health information utilization and associated factors among health professionals working in public health facilities of the south region, ethiopia
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9175220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35693583
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ejhs.v32i2.24
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