Skip to main content

Dashboards for Pandemics

 The World Health Organization Dashboard for COVID-19 related Recommendations is thoughtfully organized and committed to improvement. 

A thoughtful, committed response should reply with encouragement to listen to others, in their places and spaces. 

  1. How many agencies, communities or groups are the recommendations targeted to? How many agencies, communities or groups feel they need recommendations? 

  2. What is the compliance or adoption rate of the targeted agencies, communities or groups? What recommendation compliance and adoption did these agencies commit to? 

  3. What are the timeframes and points of progress by theme, by target group and by area of work? What timeframes were decided on with agencies, groups and government agreement?  

  4. What is the survey satisfaction and adoption of the proposed categories? What were the trends with write-in comments? 

  5. What are the points for reconvening to discuss rewording or restructuring a recommendation – low compliance or adoption, or non-movement of recommendation within a specific timeframe? What are the challenges, barriers and needs for those wanting to adopt recommendations yet unsuccessful with adoption so far? 

  6. Who is targeted in the “private sector”, and who are the primary communication liaisons? What has the private sector offered in terms of united liaisonship and recommendation implementation? 

  7. What are the specific activities and actions to be taken for recommendation movement? What activities do the agencies, communities and groups need and want? 

  8. Where is the category for “response” for recommendations, should a majority of the targeted groups decline the recommendation? What are the reasons or rationale for various responses? 

  9. What is the action once a recommendation has been bypassed or rejected? How do the agencies, communities and groups know what next step responsibilities are, and have they agreed to the next steps? 

  10. What was the peer review process for the attached publications? How can this be organized to the grid and dashboard? How much does peer review matter to these agencies, communities and groups?  

  11. What is the stakeholder process for recommendations that surpass pandemics, or recommendations that affect major industry on multiple health issues? A significant number of the recommendations on this dashboard apply to many health areas, and application of the recommendation should reach comprehensively into systems. How have stakeholders been tasked with leading at the recommendation table? 

A thoughtful, committed response should reply with encouragement to listen to others, in their places and spaces. 

[1] https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiODgyYjRmZjQtN2UyNi00NGE4LTg1YzMtYzE2OGFhZjBiYzFjIiwidCI6ImY2MTBjMGI3LWJkMjQtNGIzOS04MTBiLTNkYzI4MGFmYjU5MCIsImMiOjh9&pageName=ReportSection729b5bf5a0b579e86134 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Vaccination

 Meet people where they are.  Immunization is a cornerstone of public health and vaccination is an investment for the individual.  The cornerstone is fractured when there is incongruence between medicine and public health.  The investment is fractured when there is a disconnect between the individual and the public. Repair the fractured cornerstone. Be professional with the professional credentials handed. In a functioning, interdependent system, we would rely on scientific expertise for research and development of a tool, we would rely on medical expertise and diagnosticians to assess appropriateness of this tool to the individual, and we would rely on public health experts to bring the tool to people - where they are. We do not have a functioning, interdependent system in a world of discourse and inconsistent application of scientific concepts. While we cannot control the external energy, we can control how we meet people where they are.  We should set expectations that those who lea
Post a Comment
Read more

Experts and Regulation

For all the global health coordination, and all the international research collaboration, there is no movement toward scope of practice, labor regulation, prescribing regulation or biotechnological responsibility standardization.  We should encourage measured progress toward accountability in medicine regulation, and we should do so with countries at the table.   What are the medical professions, credentials, approved education and scope of practice in healthcare, per country? What are the community healthcare worker (CHW) roles if allowed, per country? What would countries like to see adjusted or mirrored?  Which procedures are allowed for each healthcare profession? What are the rationales, inclusive of supply and demand and access issues?  What are the differences in approvals and guidelines for medicine safety, and for who can prescribe what? What is the healthcare political climate in various countries and how does this affect decision making? What analytics are available for expa
Post a Comment
Read more

Mortality Data Accuracy Aligns With Hope

Mortality data accuracy is a cornerstone of pandemic management, and it is a cornerstone of any health issue. COVID data inaccuracy offers tremendous opportunity to improve healthcare epidemiology sustainably. And we can improve only when welcomed into one another's national space and place.   Mortality accuracy is challenging due to statistical logistics and geopolitics; it is also challenging due to sociocultural considerations.  We don't really know how each affects accuracy of the mortality data . We don't know the weight of each consideration because we haven't properly assessed them.   We have addressed some solutions for statistical logistics with COVID, such as improving real time data, use of EHR, use of cemetery and cremation data, use of excess death or other metrics, consistency to death definitions and strengthened regional epidemiology.  We have addressed few solutions for geopolitics related to COVID. Most solutions rely on normalizing the experience of a
Post a Comment
Read more