Meru

Applications Of Computational Methods And Data Analysis.
DHIS2 is a tool for collection, validation, analysis of patient based data made for health information management activities. We used data collected for Meru county for the years 2013 to 2017. We sought to find out whether it has made great strides in healthcare since the inception of devolution, challenges faced with regard to Maternal deaths, Tuberculosis and Waterborne diseases. The availability of quality healthcare in reducing these cases, the factors that bring about these diseases, the effects they have on the lives of people in the community and the ways to deal with them. We also looked at the impact of the health worker’s strikes on the communities. The study used simple graphs to analyze the data and show the various trends. We found out that for TB cases, most deaths were prevalent in HIV positive patients which has been decreasing over the years. Waterborne diseases have been on the rise due to inadequate water supply and poor sanitation among the locals and the health workers’ strikes have had a negative impact on maternal care where the number of women accessing these services declined significantly in the years affected by these strikes.