INFORMATIONAL INDICATORS

INDIGENOUS HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS

Abstract

Monitoring building and sanitation works aimed at Indigenous health requires the organization of information dispersed across different sources, formats and administrative stages, since fragmented records hinder domain representation, indicator development and support for public management. This paper proposes a methodology built through the articulation of established approaches to indicator development and foundations of Knowledge Organization and Representation. The methodology is applied to the domain of building and sanitation works in Indigenous health to support institutional decisions. The methodological path combined document analysis, source inventory, field profiling, semantic analysis, conceptual grouping, normalization, information integration and the definition of dimensions for indicator development. As a result, territorial, population and community, physical-operational, financial, temporal, administrative-documentary and information quality dimensions were proposed. These dimensions made it possible to structure indicators focused on coverage, execution, traceability, resource distribution, temporal monitoring and data qualification. The study concludes that indicators, in this context, are not only performance metrics, but informational products capable of representing a complex domain and supporting institutional decisions.