Table 3 Good practice approaches

i. Implement a national health information strategy

ii. Implement national health targets

iii. Implement a national legal act on health information (covering e.g. data standards, health information systems, e-health, infrastructure)

iv. Set up a national catalogue on health information (including e.g. organisation, processes and standards around health care and health indicators)

v. Develop guidelines at ministerial level (covering e.g. prevention, diagnostics and therapy)

vi. Develop guidelines at intersectoral / institutional level for health information and / or health reporting

vii. Develop topic/disease-specific good practices for health information and indicator development

viii. Scale up topic/disease-specific good practices for health information and indicator development

ix. Develop data quality frameworks

x. Establish “unique health identifiers”