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Health Systems
The world's political and international health leaders recognise the urgent need to make a major, sustained commitment to strengthening health systems. This renewed political interest presents an opportunity to make sustainable improvements that will bring benefits across disease areas and health programs, and redouble global efforts to meet the challenge of achieving the Millennium Development Goals.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
- The cascade mechanism for planning, implementation and reporting in healthcare
- Investing in Indonesia's health: challenges and opportunities for public spending
- Health annual thematic performance review
- Fixing health systems
- Case study: building better health in Tanzania
- Papua New Guinea's health sector: a review of capacity, change & performance issues
- Health systems in transition: learning from experience
- East Timor's health policy framework
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 conflict–prone situations: background paper
- Australia's health workforce: Research report
- Human resource management in conflict–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