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1. Regional Health Observatory
Eng. Ramon Martinez,
Health Information and Analysis, HSD/HA
Regional Advisory Committee on Health Statistics – CRAES 2012
La Habana, Cuba. March 26 – 28, 2012

2. Content
• Overview of the Regional Health Observatory
• Progress and achievements
• Demonstration of the RHO Portal

3. Regional Health Observatory
Vision
• Regional Health Observatory will be an
authoritative source of data and information
to support decision-making in health in the
Region of the Americas

4. Regional Health Observatory
Objective
• generate and disseminate data, information,
and the scientific evidence to support
technical cooperation, planning and
programming, decision-making and policy in
public health in the Region of the Americas.

5. Regional Health Observatory
Functions:
• collection, standardization, integration, and processing of health data
and statistics from countries of the Americas and technical programs
across the Organization;
• application of epidemiological methods for documenting health
situation and trends, measuring of population health status,
inequalities and inequities;
• monitoring progress of health indicators and the achievement of
goals;
• generating the analytical evidence to support decisions in public
health and guide public health policies;
• evaluating the impact of health interventions at regional and national
levels.
• Identify public health issues
• disseminate health data & information, information products,
analytical results, as well as technical and political recommendations

6. Regional Health Observatory
Components
Health Information and Portal of the Regional Health de
Plataforma de Información
Intelligence Platform (PHIP) Salud de OPS
Observatory
Health Analysis and Intelligence team

7. Progress and achievements
Health Information and Intelligence Platform

8. Progress and achievements
Health Data Warehouse is implemented, currently
contains the following datasets:
• Regional Mortality datasets. Registered and corrected
deaths by five dimensions: country, year of occurrence, sex,
age group and underlying cause of death (underlying cause
of death, ICD-10 to 4th character)
• Core Health Indicators database
• Datasets from Technical Programs: Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS,
Dengue, Malaria, Immunization
• Estimates of World’s Population, World Population
Prospects, 2011, United Nation Population Division.
• World Development Indicators, World Bank 2011
• Official Development Assistance for Health, OECD and IHME

9. Progress and achievements
Analyzed & published health themes
• Health situation and trends in the Region of the
Americas
• Mortality and causes of death
• Maternal health
• Child and infant health
• Adolescent health
• Aging and health
• Non-Communicable diseases
• Tobacco control

10. Progress and achievements
Portal of the Regional health Observatory
• It is the means to facilitate access to health data
and statistics and to disseminate analytical
results, technical and methodological
recommendations, briefings of the health
situation and trends generated by the RHO.
• It is envisioned as a point of entry to a
comprehensive and authoritative set of health
data and information from the Region of the
Americas.
http://www.paho.org/rho

11. Portal of the Health Observatory
• http://www.paho.org
• Content
– Health themes
– Health data
– Country statistics
– Reports
– Presentations

12. Health themes
• Themes
organized by:
• Population
groups
• Broad groups
of Diseases
• Plan for the
elaboration of
health
themes

13. Health Theme: Non-Communicable
Diseases
• Information
architecture
for health
themes
• A health
theme
includes
multiple
topics

14. Country Statistics

15. Reports

16. Presentations

17. Challenges & perspectives
• To strengthen the health intelligence team
• Implementation of the Plan for elaboration of
Health Themes
• Establishment of a health analyst community of
practice and establishment of networking
• Interoperability between RHO and National
Health Information Systems
• PAHO and HSD/HA will continue strengthening
RHO and will work to achieve the RHO vision.