[EQ] Systems thinking for health systems strengthening

Systems thinking for health systems strengthening

Editors: Don de Savigny; Taghreed Adam

ISBN: 978 924 156389 5 World Health Organization
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research

English: http://bit.ly/gMN2Bv

French: http://bit.ly/e6D8MP

Spanish: http://bit.ly/A9iHZ

“……Despite strong global consensus on the need to strengthen health systems, there is no established framework for doing so in developing countries, and no formula to apply or package of interventions to implement. Many health systems simply lack the capacity to measure or understand their own weaknesses and constraints, which effectively leaves policy-makers without scientifically sound ideas of what they can and should actually strengthen. Within such unmapped and misunderstood systems, interventions – even the very simplest – often fail to achieve their goals. This is not necessarily due to any inherent flaw in the intervention itself but rather to the often unpredictable behaviour of the system around it….”

 

Content

Executive Summary

Chapter 1 Systems thinking for health systems strengthening: An introduction

Chapter 2 Systems thinking: What it is and what it means for health systems

Chapter 3 Systems thinking: Applying a systems perspective to design and evaluate health systems interventions .

Chapter 4 Systems thinking for health systems: Challenges and opportunities in real-world settings

Chapter 3 Systems thinking for health systems strengthening: Moving forward

Reference List

 

Web Annex. Evaluation of interventions with system-wide effects in developing countries: Exploratory review

http://www.who.int/alliance-hpsr/resources/en

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