MODULE 1 · LESSON 1.A
Final Practical Assessment: Umuchu Ward PHC
Estimated time: 30 minutes
WRITTEN ON THE BOARD
This is the Module 1 assessment
READ COMPLETE NOTES
Umuchu Ward Primary Health Centre is fictional. The figures below are for March and are for this exercise only. Use the register when a source is in conflict, unless a question tells you otherwise.
| Item | Register | Tally sheet | Entered in DHIS2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outpatient visits | 310 | 310 | 310 |
| Antenatal first visit | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Antenatal fourth visit | 24 | 24 | 24 |
| Pentavalent 1 | 50 | 58 | 50 |
| Pentavalent 3 | 35 | 35 | 45 |
| Deliveries | 12 | 12 | 12 |
The March summary was due on the 5th of April. It was submitted on the 12th. Two mothers told the antenatal nurse that sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine was not available that week.
Score the assessment
Choose an answer for each question, then check. The suggested answers stay hidden until you do.
1. The two mothers' comment about a missing medicine is best classified as:
2. Using the register, what is the pentavalent-3 dropout?
3. Fourth antenatal visits as a percentage of first antenatal visits, from the register, is:
4. Which set of problems should be investigated before the March figures are defended?
5. Which decision note is supported by this dataset?
Module 1 completion checklist
- Explain what health data analytics means.
- Distinguish raw data from information, and quantitative data from qualitative data.
- Name the four analytic questions: what happened, why, what may happen, and what should be done.
- Identify a primary facility source and a later summary.
- Calculate a simple percentage and state the denominator.
- Recognise a problem of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency, or validity.
- Write a short decision note that does not go beyond the evidence.
Next is Module 2, Excel for Health Data Management and Analysis. The same attendance figures will move into a workbook, where you will structure them, calculate them, and still refuse to treat a total as a cause.