CHT Impact Metrics

Impact monitoring is an essential part of both the Community Health Toolkit and Medic’s processes and ethos. We are committed to harnessing data to:

1. Support our partners in data-driven operational and strategic decision making
2. Inform our product roadmap and organizational strategy, and
3. Participate in overarching policy discussions around community health.

As a member of the CHT community and potential CHT implementer, we encourage you to learn more about the recommended impact metrics for monitoring and evaluation across priority use cases by reviewing the metrics listed below.

Impact Metrics

The following list of Impact Metrics is comprehensive; it includes all of the Impact Metric that Medic and one or more additional CHT implementers have decided to share with the general public across workflows:

Caring Activities

• Total number of caring activities logged on the CHT (total, per month)

Engagement

• Total number of frontline health workers supported by the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of frontline health workers trained to use the CHT for a specific use case (ie. antenatal care) (total, per month)

Households

• Total number of households registered in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of new households registered in the CHT per month
• Total number of registered households with one or more visits by a health worker logged in the CHT per month

Antenatal Care

• Total number of pregnancy registrations logged in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of pregnancy registrations logged in the first trimester in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of confirmed deliveries logged in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of confirmed deliveries occurring in a health facility logged in the CHT (total, per month)

Postnatal Care

• Total number of postnatal visits logged in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of women receiving the first postnatal care visit within 48h of delivery logged in the CHT (total, per month)

iCCM

• Total number of assessments conducted on children under five (U5) in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of resulting diagnoses from U5 child assessments in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of resulting referrals from U5 child assessments in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of assessments conducted where the U5 child was presenting symptoms in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of U5 child assessments conducted within 72h of symptom onset logged in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of U5 child assessments conducted within 24h of symptom onset logged in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of patients receiving correct treatment at home from a healthcare worker, when treatment is recommended, logged in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of patient referral follow-up visits with a health facility visit confirmed logged in the CHT (total, per month)

Family Planning

• Total number of women counseled by healthcare workers on family planning logged in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of women newly using family planning following a counseling session with a healthcare worker logged in the CHT (total, per month)

Malnutrition

• Total number of malnutrition screenings completed for U5 children logged in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of U5 child malnutrition cases identified via malnutrition screening logged in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of U5 children with malnutrition receiving treatment and assessed to have recovered via a follow-up malnutrition screening logged in the CHT (total, per month)

Immunization

• Total number of immunization screenings for U5 children logged in the CHT (total, per month)
• Total number of U5 children receiving vaccinations logged in the CHT (total, per month)

COVID-19

• Total number of community event-based surveillance signals for COVID-19 reported by health workers via the Software (daily, weekly, monthly, total)
• Total number of COVID-19 cases registered for contact tracing in the Software (daily, weekly, monthly, total)
• Total number of contacts of COVID-19 cases registered for contact tracing in the Software (daily, weekly, monthly, total)

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