[EQ] Health System Assessment Approach: A How-To Manual

Health System Assessment Approach: A How-To Manual

Partners for Health Reformplus (PHRplus) and Health Systems 20/20 projects, with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Version 2.0 in 2012. available online URL: http://bit.ly/SuoePS

PDF [409p.] at: http://bit.ly/Qj4DQk

The approach covers key health system functions and is organized around WHO’s six health system building blocks:
leadership and governance; health financing; service delivery; human resources for health; medical products, vaccines, and technologies; and health information systems.

HSAA Manual Version 2.0 – Full Text - Version 2.0 of the HSAA Manual by Section

 

Section 1. Introduction to the Health System Assessment Approach and Manual

 

These modules describe the technical grounding and methodological approach of the health system assessment. They also provide information on the content and use of this manual.

 

Section 2. Conducting the Assessment

These five modules describe a five-step process of conducting a health system assessment.

 

Section 3. Guidance on Assessing Health System Building Blocks

The modules in this section describe the indicators that can be used to assess each of the health system building blocks. The section also includes country stories and templates. The modules in Section 3 can be downloaded separately, depending on areas of interest.

 

Complete Indicator Summary

 

Section 3 Module 1: Country and Health System Overview

Section 3 Module 2: Leadership and Governance

Section 3 Module 3: Health Financing

Section 3 Module 4: Service Delivery

Section 3 Module 5: Human Resources for Health

Section 3 Module 6: Medical Products, Vaccines, and Technologies

Section 3 Module 7: Health Information Systems

 

Bibliography

 

Annex 1: Section 1 Supplemental Materials

Annex 2: Section 2 Supplemental Materials

Annex 3: Section 3 Supplemental Materials

Additional Guidance:

Engaging Stakeholders in Health System Assessments: A Guide for HSA Teams

 

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[EQ] Flourishing, feelings, and fitness: An evolutionary perspective on health capability

Flourishing, feelings, and fitness: An evolutionary perspective on health capability

In A. Poiani (Ed.) -Pragmatic Evolution: Practical Applications of Evolutionary theory

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (pp. 188-210) -Chisholm, J.S. 2011

James S. Chisholm, Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Human Biology at the University of

Western Australia. He is currently Visiting Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.

Available as PDF [12p] at: http://bit.ly/SFs35T

“Flourishing, feelings, and fitness” is in the growing tradition of evolutionary medicine and public health. It shows how evolutionary theory can contribute to “policy good for health” (Sen 2010). Its Epicurean foundation is that knowledge (evolutionary theory, our only scientific theory of life) is good for therapy, that therapy (prevention and intervention aimed at maximizing shortfall equality) is good for health, and that health is good for the Aristotelian goal of flourishing. Then, by emphasizing the difference between fitness as work and fitness as measure, it suggests why we should care about flourishing.

Flourishing organisms are on track for continuing in the evolutionary game. Fitness is the ultimate explanation of what flourishing is good for. We value flourishing because we value fitness. It also feels good. ….”

 

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[EQ] Why do we care about evidence synthesis? An introduction to the special issue on systematic reviews

Journal of Development Effectiveness

Volume 4, Issue 3, 2012 -Special Issue: Special Issue on Systematic Reviews

Original Articles at: http://bit.ly/SxNcJK

 

Why do we care about evidence synthesis? An introduction to the special issue on systematic reviews

Howard White & Hugh Waddington

“………Systematic reviews are currently in high demand in international development. At least 100 new reviews are ongoing or already completed on a range of topics across the board in international development, many of which were commissioned by policy-making agencies.

These new reviews need to be based on answerable questions, using methods of analysis and reporting which are appropriate for social and economic development programmes and relevant to users.

This introductory paper lays out why we believe systematic reviews should be an important component of evidence-informed development policy and practice. It concludes by introducing the papers collected in this issue, which aim to demonstrate how reviews can be made to live up to the promises generated around them…..”

 

How to do a good systematic review of effects in international development: a tool kit

Hugh Waddington, Howard White, Birte Snilstveit, Jorge Garcia Hombrados, Martina Vojtkova, Philip Davies, Ami Bhavsar, John Eyers, Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, Mark Petticrew, Jeffrey C. Valentine & Peter Tugwell
URL: http://bit.ly/W7Wz7w

“…..We provide a ‘how to’ guide to undertake systematic reviews of effects in international development, by which we mean, synthesis of literature relating to the effectiveness of particular development interventions. Our remit includes determining the review's questions and scope, literature search, critical appraisal, methods of synthesis including meta-analysis, and assessing the extent to which generalisable conclusions can be drawn using a theory-based approach. Our work draws on the experiences of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation's (3ie's) systematic reviews programme…”

Systematic reviews: from ‘bare bones’ reviews to policy relevance

Birte Snilstveit

Narrative approaches to systematic review and synthesis of evidence for international development policy and practice

Birte Snilstveit, Sandy Oliver & Martina Vojtkova

Purity or pragmatism? Reflecting on the use of systematic review methodology in development

Ruth Stewart, Carina van Rooyen & Thea de Wet

The benefits and challenges of using systematic reviews in international development research

Richard Mallett, Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Rachel Slater & Maren Duvendack

Assessing ‘what works’ in international development: meta-analysis for sophisticated dummies

Maren Duvendack, Jorge Garcia Hombrados, Richard Palmer-Jones & Hugh Waddington

The impact of daycare programmes on child health, nutrition and development in developing countries: a systematic review

Jef L. Leroy, Paola Gadsden & Maite Guijarro

 

 

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[EQ] Friday October 5th 2012 eHealth and The Rockefeller Foundation Experience and Vision - PAHO Online Seminar Series: eHealth in the Americas - 2-3pm EST

PAHO/WHO KMC Seminar Series:

 “eHealth in the Americas”

Website: bit.ly/S7uTe3 

The Member States of the Pan American Health Organization approved in 2011, the implementation of a Regional eHealth Strategy and Plan of Action to all the countries in the Americas Region. One of the key elements of the strategy is knowledge and information sharing among member states and stakeholders.

The proposed KMC Seminar series on eHealth aim at contributing to this important debate by bringing different themes of relevance and key players working on eHealth globally to ensure knowledge sharing among people and institutions and convergence in the implementation of eHealth National Strategies and plan of actions; and also to inform public health stakeholders and other decision makers in the health sector, to better take part in the debate.

Seminar Nº1:  eHealth and The Rockefeller Foundation Experience and Vision

By Karl Brown, Associate Director, Applied Technology at Rockefeller Foundation

Karl Brown joined the Rockefeller Foundation in 2006. As Associate Director of Applied Technology, Brown is focused on the application of information technology to the programmatic work of the foundation. He is working on exploring and nurturing imaginative uses of technology by Rockefeller grantees, and improving collaboration and knowledge management within the Foundation.
Prior to joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Brown worked as the Chief Technical Officer of GNVC, an NGO that fostered entrepreneurship in Ghana. Previously, Brown was a technical team lead with Trilogy, where he developed and deployed enterprise systems and consumer-facing websites for Fortune 500 companies such as Ford and Nissan. Brown received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

When: Friday October 5th. 2012

Language: English

Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm - EST (Washington, DC USA) To check your time zone, see the World Clock

Virtual room:  http://www.paho.org/virtual/ict4health

Agenda

2:00:     Welcome Remarks - Marcelo D’Agostino KMC Area Manager PAHO/WHO

2:05      eHealth and The Rockefeller Foundation Experience and Vision

Karl Brown, Associate Director, Applied Technology at Rockefeller Foundation

2:30      Comments, Questions & Answers

Moderator: PAHO/WHO

3:00     Concluding Remarks:

Marcelo D’Agostino KMC Area Manager PAHO/WHO

 

To participate online:

To login to the Virtual session, use the link below and type your name on the sign in page:

URL: http://new.paho.org/virtual/ehealth

Related material:

PAHO/WHO eHealth portal: http://new.paho.org/ict4health

 

CD51/13 — PAHO/WHO Strategy and Plan of Action on eHealth

CD51/13 — OPS/OMS Estrategia y Plan de acción sobre eSalud 

CD51/13—  OPAS/OMS Estratégia e Plano de Ação para eSaúde 

CD51/13-- OPS/OMS Stratégie et Plan d’action sur la cybersanté 

 

Additional information:

·         The KMC Seminar series will happen every two months

·         All Seminars will be life-streamed, and opened for participation via Elluminate, or via telephone line.

·         For those who cannot follow the live seminar, we will have the recordings and presentations available at
PAHO ICT4health at: http://new.paho.org/ict4health/

 

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