What is the best way to follow up mothers visiting independent Mother-Child health care centers

[koloo (Ulrich NDONG ABESSOLO)]

What is the best way to follow up mothers visiting independent Mother-Child health care centers

We would like to follow-up mothers during pregnancy, childbirth and post-natal care. Each stage takes place in a different entity. A mother (and, for post-natal care the child) is seen several times in the pre-natal and post-natal clinic and once in the maternity ward.

A mother may be seen initially and registered at any stage. Stage specific forms need to be filled in at every visit.

While we hope that the ID of the mother will be available at each of her subsequent visits, the health care worker would probably often need to perform a search on the name when it is not available.

We wonder how best to set this up in Tracker. The history of the mother should be available at every visit, so we want to see details of pre-natal visits and birth at port-natal care visits.

Should there be one single programme in which we chose the appropriate forms for each stage ? This would enable us to search for mothers within a programme and see her history.

Or would it be better to have three different programmes and somehow set up search between forms and see information on previous visits in other programmes ?

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

Hi @koloo

If you were to have three different programs, what would each program represent?

There are many things to consider and questions to ask when designing a Tracker program (Build your Tracker programs - DHIS2 Documentation).

Additionally, have you considered following the official programs’ designs? For instance, for your case, I recommend comparing and analyzing the Antenatal Care (ANC) Tracker program.

@koloo

Each stage takes place in a different entity.

If each stage happens in a different OU. You will be using the transfer TEIs feature.

@koloo

A mother (and, for post-natal care the child) is seen several times in the pre-natal and post-natal clinic and once in the maternity ward.

A mother may be seen initially and registered at any stage. Stage specific forms need to be filled in at every visit.

In this case, the program stage can be set to a repeatable stage. And it’s possible to create a form for each program stage (if you mean it needs to be unique in each repetition then depending on the uniqueness it could be handled using program rules).

@koloo

While we hope that the ID of the mother will be available at each of her subsequent visits, the health care worker would probably often need to perform a search on the name when it is not available.

When configuring the TEA, it’s possible to select which ones are searchable so the health care worker will be able to use both ID or name as well as any other TEA that are set to searchable.

@koloo

The history of the mother should be available at every visit, so we want to see details of pre-natal visits and birth at port-natal care visits.

You might want to stick to a single program.

[koloo (Ulrich NDONG ABESSOLO)]

Hello Mr Addin Gassim,
Thank you for your promptness, we take note of your advice and recommendations, we will try again and see according to the guidance received if we arrive at something positive in the implementation of our program.
We’ll get back to you as soon as possible, if necessary.
Thank you for your help,
Ulrich

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

Thank you @koloo !

It’d be great if you share an update on how you’ll be implementing this including the TEIs, access levels, OUs, and relationships. This will depend on the information you will be collecting.