Framework for Public Health Policy Indicators Governance and Metadata Quality Flags to Promote Data Literacy

Wesley Barbosa, Jacqueline Planas, Maritza Francisco, Solange Alves-Souza, Lucia Filgueiras, Leandro Velloso, Luiz de-Souza

2022

Abstract

Public Health Policy Indicators (PHPI) are tools for monitoring the performance of policies and enable data-driven decision-making. For the PHPI to be useful for different stakeholders, they must be characterized, promoting an unequivocal understanding of their meaning. PHPI are consolidated from data assets, which must be managed to result in reliable information that support the decision-making process. However, in the public sector, aspects related to data and indicators governance tend to be neglected. Thus, we propose a metadata-oriented framework for health indicator governance, that incorporates aspects of the agile philosophy, and allows implementing a fast-start governance program. Furthermore, a flag-based system is proposed to promote data literacy in the context of health indicators. From a case study, we attained results that show the feasibility of implementing a governance program, with budget and time constraints, guaranteeing fast value delivery. The quality flags proved to be an adequate strategy to classify the indicator metadata in a simplified way and encourage improvement actions. Therefore, working towards obtaining more detailed descriptions of the indicators that highlight the usefulness of the information, promotes a better understanding of its meaning and use, encouraging data literacy, generating value, and positively impacting the management of health policies.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Barbosa W., Planas J., Francisco M., Alves-Souza S., Filgueiras L., Velloso L. and de-Souza L. (2022). Framework for Public Health Policy Indicators Governance and Metadata Quality Flags to Promote Data Literacy. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications - Volume 1: DATA, ISBN 978-989-758-583-8, pages 281-292. DOI: 10.5220/0011259000003269

in Bibtex Style

@conference{data22,
author={Wesley Barbosa and Jacqueline Planas and Maritza Francisco and Solange Alves-Souza and Lucia Filgueiras and Leandro Velloso and Luiz de-Souza},
title={Framework for Public Health Policy Indicators Governance and Metadata Quality Flags to Promote Data Literacy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,},
year={2022},
pages={281-292},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011259000003269},
isbn={978-989-758-583-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,
TI - Framework for Public Health Policy Indicators Governance and Metadata Quality Flags to Promote Data Literacy
SN - 978-989-758-583-8
AU - Barbosa W.
AU - Planas J.
AU - Francisco M.
AU - Alves-Souza S.
AU - Filgueiras L.
AU - Velloso L.
AU - de-Souza L.
PY - 2022
SP - 281
EP - 292
DO - 10.5220/0011259000003269