Information Systems, Statistical Information Availability and Decision Making in the Primary Health Care Level of the City of Buenos Aires.

The availability of statistical information is usually associated with 'better decision making', fundamentally within the paradigm of evidence-based decisions. Thus, it is interesting to understand the demands and expectations, interpretations and effective use of statistical information by decision-makers at the primary health care level, considering the implications of the recently implemented Information System in Public Health (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Age and Nationality: Two Variables That Challenge the Univocal Identification of People in the Health System of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

The univocal identification of people is fundamental for the longitudinal monitoring of health status. The impossibility of all people to credit their identity via their identity document generates temporary records that make it difficult to record the continuity of care. This paper analyzes the Patient Index of the Ministry of Health of the Buenos Aires City and describes how the age and nationality variables influence the creation of temporary records.