FACTORS INFLUENCING PERFORMANCE OF ROUTINE HEALTH INFORMATION FOR DECISION MAKING AMONG HEALTH CARE WORKERS IN RACHUONYO SUB COUNTY, KENYA

Abstract

ABSTRACT Globally, health agencies have delved in strengthening health systems as a means of improving health outcomes. In Kenya today, the management of the public health facilities at different levels is more concerned about the collection and reporting of routine health data that Kenya informationinforrmation Software (DHIS2) but little is known on how individual facilities analyze report and disseminate the same for use in making informed decisions at the facility level. Yet in spite of the introduction of DHIS2, recent evidence has shown very low levels of data demand and use by the targeted stockholders in Kenya. Generally, there is a concerted effort by both the government and the international bodies to accelerate the collection of health data, but little efforts have been made to ensure its utilization at facility levels. The current study assessed the factors associated with the use of routine health information for decision making among health care workers. The study will employ descriptive cross-sectional design. Researchers purposively will stratify 201 health workers by cadre, and then probability proportionate sampling will be applied to get the required number from every cadre. Both qualitative and quantitative data will be collected. Quantitative data will be entered into the SPSS software, descriptive statistics and Chi-square tests will be used to analyze the data. Whereas qualitative data is to be analyzed thematically