Abstract:
On mortality the statistics of accurate and Real-time data and cause of death are most important in national health development and population. And enhance the countries’ potential to handle epidemics and health treats (1). The aim of this study is to explore the challenges data managers and community health workers are facing to the use of paper based verbal autopsy tool to record under five children death cases so that they can help in development of digital solution. The interview with health centers’ data managers and community health workers were conducted. Using qualitative context analysis, it has been shown that there are various gaps and challenges obtained from participants. According to the DMs and CHW who regularly interact with the current systems to record various health center’s data the data recorded in paper form are less secure, easy to be damaged, not centralized and do not provide the adequate knowledge to the decision makers.
The results merged with and experiences in the accessing under five death records, the digital tool is the solution to mitigate the identified gaps and challenges. The prototype of this tool contains a data entry form with different comprehensive analysis tools that provide the overall details of data based on users wishes. The designed tool can be accessed with web based or mobile based platforms.
