“What excites me about this work is the implementation of universal health coverage requires a lot of evidence generation…and it is important to bridge the gap between research and implementation. The work we are doing is going to contribute to strengthening that link.” Dr. Joseph Lachica USAID, Philippines Mission Locally led development is when local …
Category Archives: Health Systems Strengthening
Preview: Rehabilitation in Health Financing
Opportunities on the Way to Universal Health Coverage Health financing is a core pillar of health systems and encompasses the three functions of how revenues for health are collected, pooled, and paid to providers of health care services. It can be leveraged to pursue key Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals of enhancing access, ensuring quality, …
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Georgia Overcomes Limited Data to Create Evidence-Based Policies for Financing Rehabilitation Services
Georgia is taking steps to extend financial protection for rehabilitation services through the Universal Health Coverage Program (UHCP).
Improving the Linkages between Social and Behavior Change and Health Systems Strengthening
Social and behavior change (SBC) is an approach that applies insights about why people behave the way they do and how behaviors change to affect positive outcomes for and by specific groups of people. In behavior-centered programs, all program interventions are designed to empower individual and collective changes and create enabling social, physical, market, and …
Knowledge Exchange: Improving the Linkages between Social and Behavior Change and Health Systems Strengthening
This webinar will focus on the initial steps that can be taken to integrate social and behavior change into health systems programming.
New law mandates salaries for Guinea’s community health workers
On December 9, 2022, Guinea’s National Transitional Council unanimously adopted a new law mandating that the local civil service should engage and pay for community health mobilizers (RECO) through commune-level budgets and that the national government should pay for higher-level community health workers (ASC) salaries. The new law is a significant step towards implementing Guinea’s …
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Monrovia call to action launched by the Liberian ministry of health
The Health System Strengthening Accelerator (Accelerator) extends hearty congratulations to the Ministry of Health of Liberia and all its partners for hosting the hugely successful Third International Community Health Worker Symposium in Monrovia from March 20 to 24, 2023! The symposium proved pivotal in advocating for community health workers who should be trained effectively, paid …
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Strengthening rehabilitation within Ethiopia’s health system
Capacity building training to strengthen rehabilitation within Ethiopia’s health system. Photo credit: The Accelerator
Catalytic Pilots to Strengthen the Health Policy and Systems Research Ecosystem in Asia Kick Off
Catalytic Pilots to Strengthen the Health Policy and Systems Research Ecosystem in Asia Kick Off As Asian countries implement health sector reforms to advance towards universal health coverage (UHC), demand is growing for country and regional learning on HSS, and for domestic health policy and systems research institutions (HPSRIs) to efficiently formulate and implement HSS. …
Guinea Implementation Research Protocol Published in PLOS ONE
Guinea Implementation Research Protocol Published in PLOS ONE In this article published in PLOS ONE, Alexandre Delamou, Fassou Mathias Grovogui , Lior Miller, Amy Nye, Mamadi Kourouma, Delphin Kolié, Tohanizé Goumou, and Thomas J. Bossert share findings and recommendations from a study to explore the rollout of the community health policy in Guinea in the …
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