An Exploratory Study into the Usefulness of the District Health Annual Report to the DHMT* in the Management of the District Health System

Abstract

For a developing country like Ghana, which has chosen the PHC strategy to achieve health for all by 2000 AD, the management of the district health system is understandably of vital importance. The government's support of its health policy is shown in its decentralization moves on the past few years. In 1995, not only personnel, but now, the financial administration has been brought to the district level. Health managers and teams therefore now bear the responsibility of managing the district health system. To do this successfully, information generation as well as its use in the widest sense is very essential. It is necessary to find out if this realization is present, for indeed a lot of data and information is commonly being already generated in the health system.