Background
The Health Status Monitoring Unit coordinates the assessment and reporting of Jamaica’s population health. It brings together data that show how health outcomes, risk factors and service coverage change over time.
It monitors the health of the population by regularly collecting and analysing data from many sources, including vital statistics and disease reporting systems, to guide public health policy and decisions.
Objectives
- Routinely monitor, assess and report on Jamaica’s population health.
- Maintain the national compendium of health indicators and its data dictionary.
- Work with data partners to improve the quality and completeness of health information.
- Provide evidence for health policy, programme planning and evaluation.
Structure
The Director oversees population health monitoring within the National Epidemiology Branch. The Unit works with Ministry teams and national partners, including the Statistical Institute of Jamaica and the Planning Institute of Jamaica.
Chief Medical Officer
Principal Medical Officer and National Epidemiologist
- Secretary
- Epidemiological Officer
- Programme Coordinator
- Administrator
- National Surveillance Unit
- Medical Epidemiologists
- Medical Officer (Health)
- Surveillance Officers
- Epidemiology Clerk
- Data Entry and Database Officers
- Secretary
- Epidemiology Research and Analysis Unit
- Director, ERAU
- Secretary
- Biostatisticians
- Research Officers
- Data Entry Clerk
- Health Status Monitoring Unit
- Director, HSM
- Biostatisticians
- Health Status Monitoring Officers
- Geographical Information Systems Sub-Unit
- GIS Officers
- GIS Analysts
- Database Officers
How the Unit works
- Ministry and partner data
- Health indicator review and analysis
- Population health reports
- Policy, planning and programme evaluation