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Bar graphs show rankings very well as they give you a nice visual to compare sizes. Without looking at numbers, you can easily understand instantly which items include the highest or lowest values.
Curative care visits is the highest ranking service category for both the Northern and Eastern Zones. The lowest ranking service category for the Northern Zone is Speech therapy and both inpatient medical and obstetrics are died for the lowest ranking service category in the Eastern Zone.If you wanted to show the Flores del Mundo membership trends throughout the year, a line graph by month would be the best way to present that data. If you were to break it down by member type (ie. employee, spouse, or dependent), it would be meaningful to do a bar graph by month that is stacked with each member type in a different color. That way, you can easily see how the membership is trending month to month while also visualizing what types of members are making up that data every month.
To compare Eastern vs Northern Membership data, a line graph would also be useful as they would be on the same graph and you can visually see how they compare very easily. You can also look here for monthly trends.
The WHO Maternity Dashboard is undoubtedly a vast improvement from what was done prior to this intervention. The execution, however, could be improved greatly. According to the Alexander textbook, dashboards should be more visual, with “at a glance” views. This could have been achieved possibly by using line graphs of each area measured by month. This way, practitioners can easily see how their data is trending and quickly know if they are hitting target metrics in each area. Individual areas in need of improvement can also be listed out as a reminder for practitioners to follow a certain protocol that may lead to more favorable outcomes for their patients and their children.
I work in healthcare and we use similar graphs to measure our own outcomes. Each department has its own measures that they follow monthly, each on a separate dashboard with a line graph. Colored arrows adjacent to the graph indicate whether target is being met, similar to the color coding shown within the WHO dashboard. It makes it very simple to look at and to understand how each area of the hospital is performing in key areas.
