BEANISH and HISP Teaching Material
This page offers an overview over courses offered and teaching materials used in the countries of the different BEANISH partners and in the wider HISP network.
Some of the files are zipped using 7-zip, an Open Source tool that is available for free downloading here: http://www.7-zip.org/
Etiopia
The Ethiopian team has used this manual in their training courses, and the manual is made available in Word format to allow downoading and customization to other contexts as relevant:
Training Manual for Health Managers
Tanzania
BEANISH Tanzania offered a nine-month certificate course in Health Information Systems Management, which has been run since 2005 in Tanzania for students from Tanzania, Malawi and Ethiopia. A detailed course description can be found as BEANISH Deliverable D3.3 (here:).
Zanzibar
The Zanzibar HMIS Guidelines for Facility level workers is a very useful manual for health workers engaged in health information systems. It provides guidelines through basic explanations, examples and targets for all phases of the information cycle; 1) Collection, 2) Processing, 3) Analysis, 4) Presentation, 5) Self Asessment, and 6) Feedback. A "must-read" for all involved in health information systems implementation, both for IT and health professionals.
Mozambique
Courses are offered to health workers in cooperation with the Ministry of Health.
Manual for using information (in Portuguese): CursoDeSistemasDeInformacaoDistrital.doc
Instructions on calculating indicators: Criacao_de_Indicadores_no_SISD.pdf
Malawi
BEANISH Malawi aims to develop, run and institutionalise courses on HIS as part of and in relation to the Masters Programme at the Medical College, University of Malawi and thus develop a national centre of capacity. Building on this centre of capacity and these courses, the project seeks to support the development and running of courses on HIS in the Health Training Institutions in Malawi and seek to make such courses part of their basic and compulsory curriculum.
Courses have been held drawing on the support from BEANISH Mozambique.
Slides describing use of DHIS in Malawi:
Creating reports in the DHIS: Creating Reports in DHIS.pdf
Exporting Data in DHIS: Exporting Data in DHIS Software.pdf
How to add a user in DHIS: How to add a user in DHIS.pdf
How to change the data file in DHIS: How to change the data file in DHIS.pdf
Use of pivot tables in Excel: use_of_pivot_tables_in_excel.pdf
Validating data: vaildating_data_in_dhis_defining_validation_rules_in_dhis.pdf
Botswana
Description of course: DeliverableD4.3.doc
Training manual for Botswana: DHIS14TrainingManual(BW).doc
South Africa
HISP South Africa have for years offered courses to health workers. At the HISP South Africa web page (www.hisp.org), course material can be downloaded:
"Using Health Information For Local Action" - Module 1 / 2 / 3:
Module 1: http://www.hisp.org/downloadsend.asp?FileName=ftp/Download/Module%201.zip
Module 2: http://www.hisp.org/downloadsend.asp?FileName=ftp/Download/Module%202.zip
Module 3: http://www.hisp.org/downloadsend.asp?FileName=ftp/Download/Module%203.zip
An instructuve manual can be found here:
Heywood A, Rohde J (2001): "Using information for action ? a manual for health workers at facility level". A report from the Equity Project, Arcadia, South Africa. http://www.hisp.info/confluence/download/attachments/9057/HeywoodRohde.pdf As zipped file: here:
A package for training on monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS work: TrainingMaterialsArvInfoSystems.7z
A complete package for conducting training on use of information for local health care management:UseOfInfoForManagement.7z
A package of training materials for course on utilising information for improved hospital management: UseOfInfoTrainingModuleForHospitals.7z
In addition, several courses of one week duration are offered:
Computerised District Information Systems: An Intermediate Course
Computerised District Information Systems: An Advanced Course
Computerised District Information Systems: An uper-User Course
Several of the courses offered by HISP South Africa target information use:
Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for analysing and mapping health care issues
Using information for effective management of health care services
Using information to manage hospitals
Using information for improved management of STIs and HIV/AIDS (including links to TB) within a district health system setting
Financial information for managing health services
Norway
As part of the master level course in Health Information, University of Oslo has filmed several lessons on core topics in health information. These lessons can be viewed online:
Description to open the the topic videos in QuickTime: Start QuickTime player -> File -> Open URL... -> fill in:
rtsp://lillestroem.uio.no/medisin/hisp/Introduction.mp4
rtsp://lillestroem.uio.no/medisin/hisp/Topic_1_A_HISP.mp4
rtsp://lillestroem.uio.no/medisin/hisp/Topic_1_B_HISP.mp4
rtsp://lillestroem.uio.no/medisin/hisp/Topic_2_HISP.mov
rtsp://lillestroem.uio.no/medisin/hisp/Topic_3_HISP.mov
rtsp://lillestroem.uio.no/medisin/hisp/Topic_3_del_1_HISP_u-slides.mov
rtsp://lillestroem.uio.no/medisin/hisp/Topic_4_HISP.mov
rtsp://lillestroem.uio.no/medisin/hisp/Topic_5_HISP.mov
rtsp://lillestroem.uio.no/medisin/hisp/Topic_6_HISP.mov
rtsp://lillestroem.uio.no/medisin/hisp/Topic_6_HISP.mov
rtsp://lillestroem.uio.no/medisin/hisp/Topic_8_HISP_u-slides.mov
rtsp://lillestroem.uio.no/medisin/hisp/Topic_9_Humberto_HISP_u-slides.mov
Software Manuals
See also the general HISP web page for software documentation: http://www.hisp.info/confluence/display/DOC/Home
DHIS 2.0 Manual
User's manuals for the District Health Information System, version 2.0 will be made available soon:
English
DHIS 1.4 Manual
User's manuals for the District Health Information System, version 1.4:
English
Portuguese
DHIS 1.3 Manual
User's manuals for the District Health Information System, version 1.3:
English
Portuguese
H2. Software development
Introductory course to Java
We recommend the tutorials from Sun as appropriate for giving the necessary basics:
What will be of special relevance are these tutorials:
In this introductory Java package you'll find slides and exercises that builds on the tutorials from Sun.
Introduction to DHIS 2 technologies and java web development
Key technologies and tools in DHIS 2 development are:
Maven, Subversion, JUnit, Spring, Hibernate, and Webwork. Lectures on all these tools plus an overview of the DHIS 2 code and architecture you can download here:
Java open source course with focus on DHIS 2 technologies
