Routine health information system

A system that generates data collected at public and private health facilities and institutions, and at community-level health care posts and clinics – at regular intervals of a year at minimum. The data give a picture of health status, health services and health resources. Most of the data are gathered by health care providers, by supervisors and through routine health facility surveys. The sources of those data are generally individual health records, records of services delivered, and resource health records including financial, commodity or laboratory records (51,86).