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[John lewis <johnlewis.hisp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dylan & Jason,
As i understand the problem is more people from different catchment area to
one particular place or facility/clinic and generating indicator based on
population is not relevant.
instead of using population, indicator can be based on dose supplied or
available at that facility/clinic. Since the object of the presentation
would be how much did the camp or program have contributed it would be
better to relate the performance with respect to dose supplied and consumed.
John

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Jason Pickering <
jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Dylan,
> Interesting requirement but not totally unusual. We see similar
> patterns in Zambia with regard to immunization. Due to campaigns, some
> months see many more visits to a clinic than what would otherwise be
> normal. So, in this case, we can calculate an effective cachement
> population based on historical figures. .You can also can based the
> estimated catchment population perhaps on last years of last months
> figures, calculate this  externally in some statistical package or
> Excel,  and load this figure into DHIS2.  How this figure gets
> calculated is more of  a question for the statisticians, which I am
> not.
>
> Otherwise basing the indicators on monthly attendance should also be a
> possibility.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Dylan Tovey <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I just had a conceptual question about the best way te o set up
> indicators in DHIS2.
> >
> > We run a network of primary health care clinics in Papua New Guinea. We
> tend to provide supplementary health services (where clinics are
> dysfunctional, not operating or temporarily out of medications etc) so draw
> clients across a wide range of official catchment areas (and in constantly
> changing proportions etc). As an example, at the clinic in which I am
> sitting currently we draw clients from over 11 government catchment areas
> >
> > I am comfortable setting up absolute indicators and indicators that
> reference the clients that come to our services. However, I wondered if
> anybody had any thoughts about ways we could generate indicators against
> some form of external population figures. I suspect it might be fairly
> challenging but was hoping someone may have experienced similar issues in
> the past.
> >
> > Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Dylan
> >
> >
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