Section navigation:
ADG TOOLBOX
- Suggest a resource to include in this section.
- Wrong information?
Please let us know if we have published inaccurate info on this page. - Keep updated - subscribe to the ADG newsletter and forum mailing lists.
Main content:
Health Systems
Last updated on
01 July 2008
AusAID's 2006 policy for Australian Development Assistance in Health: Helping health systems deliver, for example, acknowledges the need to focus on health systems as a whole, not just specific health issues or health services, if development initiatives are to be sustainable in the long term.
Health systems encompass issues such as policy, planning, and management; health sector financing; health workforce management; health sector monitoring and evaluation; infrastructure and information systems that support health systems. Follow the links below for a range of resources looking at these issues, including reports, guides and toolkits, websites, research and policy documents.
Policy and planning
Institutional arrangements and issues
- Public-private partnerships and global health equity: prospects & challenges
- Managed competition in health care
- A new face for private providers in developing countries: implications for public health?
- The impact of health system reform on remote health in Cambodia & the Philippines
- Decentralisation in Asian health sectors: friend or foe?
- Buying results? Contracting for health service delivery in developing countries
- Overview of devolution of health services in the Philippines
Economics and financing
- Study of financial access to health services for the poor in Cambodia Phase 2
- Impact of the Asian economic crisis on health
- Study of financial access to health services for the poor in Cambodia
- The economical control of infectious diseases
- Paying out-of-pocket for health care in Asia: catastrophic & poverty impact
- Developing new technologies to address neglected diseases
- Potential economic impact of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in Papua New Guinea
- Trade in health services in the ASEAN region
Workforce and human resource issues
- Local health managers in difficult environments: lessons learned; unusual successes; and a way forward
- The Global Health Workforce Alliance
- Human resource management in conflictÂ?prone situations: background paper
- Australia's health workforce: Research report
- Human resource management in conflictÂ?prone situations: policy considerations
Health infrastructure
Health information systems
- Evidence and information for health policy: a decade of change
- Developing health management information systems: a practical guide for developing countries
- The challenge of translating health information systems
- Maternal mortality in 2000: estimates developed by WHO, UNICEF & UNFPA
- Monitoring & evaluation of decentralisation reforms in developing country health sectors
- Information systems for health sector monitoring in Papua New Guinea
- The impact of the IICD health projects