The burden of recording and reporting health data in primary health care facilities in five low- and lower-middle income countries

Table 1 Key characteristics of 80 Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities, five countries (2016–2017)

		Cambodia	Ghana	Mozambique	Nigeria	Tanzania
Number	Health facilities visited	16	16	16	16	16
Location	Urban	0	0	8	3	4
	Peri-urban	2	1	0	0
	Rural	14	15	8	13	12
Type	Health Centre	16	5	15	12	4
	Health Post/ CHPS/ Health Dispensary	0	10	1	3	12
	Maternal/Child Health Clinic	0	1	0	1	0
Outpatient care only	No	2	3	5	3	4
Outpatient care only	Yes	14	13	11	13	12
Number of health staff	Clinician / nurse / midwife/ AMO / CO	6	2	12	1	4
Number of health staff	CHW/CHN/CHEW	0	3	1	4	0
Workload	Patient load per month	1860	1041	8728	429	837
	Patient load per day	85	47	397	20	38
	Patient load per day per health staff	14	24	33	10	10

CHPS Community-Based Health Planning and Services, AMO Assistant Medical Officer, CO Clinical Officer, CHW Community Health Worker, CHN Community Health Nurse, CHEW Community Health Extension Worker

ISSN: 1472-6963