The third session of ” Stata training for monitoring UHC” was conducted by Causal Design for P4H with the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) and the General Secretariat to the National Social Protection Council (GS NSPC) to expand on learnings from two previous sessions held in 2019. The training took place in Kep from Nov 2-6th with three days of in person training and workshops. It was aimed at empowering participants on how to use primary data to monitor financial risk protection primarily through the Cambodian Socioeconomic Survey (CSES). The CSES provides a comprehensive set of indicators on the living conditions in Cambodia, covering the main socio-economic areas such as health, education, housing conditions, economic activities, vulnerability, etc. As a first step towards producing the required information for monitoring for financial risk protection, staff members of the NIPH and GS NSPC learned how to manage large secondary sets.
The trainers and participants all reported that session three was the most successful to date. The final session on day three concluded with technical presentations from the participants on the findings from small group work which aimed to understand various aspects of health financing, service coverage, public and private facilities, health seeking, and vulnerable populations. In general, the trainers are confident that with adequate time any of the participants is equipped with the proper tools to access data they need to calculate the indicators discussed during the sessions. All students were able to successfully access relevant data, manipulate the data, and conduct limited analysis to calculate catastrophic health care expenditure, quintiles of expenditure for poverty analysis, and the poverty line and impoverishment. Participants learned in detail the various poverty line methods to compare the relative merits for using each.
The training enabled participants to fully engage in the material. On many of the days the participants started before 8:30 AM, with a 1 hour break for lunch, and remained working until well after 5pm to as late as 6pm.Taken together the trainers feel that the training was successful in its aims. To sustain the benefits of the training it is likely that the participants will need to engage with the material on a semi-regular basis.
