Monitoring

Enhancing Morbidity Surveillance at Community Level

In order to enhance morbidity surveillance at community level, MUCHAP at the Iganga Mayuge HDSS has initiated an electronic healthcare information management system at Busowobi Health Centre. The system uses an HDSS member unique identifier (given to every community member in the HDSS catchment area) to link their demographic data with their electronically captured health facility data about medical history, diagnosis, laboratory, prescribed medication, ante- and post natal data from ANC clinic and maternity, and vaccination.

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Our Mission

To promote the wellbeing of the Ugandan population through generation and provision of high quality population based demographic, health and socio economic information to decision makers and researchers.

Our Vision

To become a centre of excellence, innovation and resource of information for evidence based decision making, providing a conducive environment for several community based projects in single or multi-disciplinary research training.