Course: Health Systems Strengthening

Not surprisingly, the approaches to measure quality vary in their complexity, depending on whether you are monitoring a quality assurance process within a health facility, implementing a quality improvement program …

Considering your own work context, do you see any of these frameworks in use? Do you lean towards favouring one over another and if so, which one? Share your thoughts …

Let’s apply some of these ideas to a particular setting. We’d like to take you through a case study that will highlight some of the particular characteristics of supply chain …

Musonda Kasonde describes a number of ways in which those working in supply chain management can work to making those actions support the wider health system development. We like the …

There is a big difference between knowing what a resilient system is (able to be flexible and adapt to external shocks) and actually making changes that build resilience. We call …

There are multiple frameworks and approaches to health systems strengthening (HSS) that constantly change the way these models are defined conceptually, organised, used and funded. Regardless of the framework, all …

When watching this video you may be struck by the fact that the government of Uganda and each of the different donors were all working to achieve a similar goal. …

Health product supply chains are essential for the health system. It is through them that medicines, vaccines and a whole array of health products are made available to the population. …

We wonder if you noticed the links to the previous week (human resources for health) in Arletty’s comments in this video. We were struck by her comments about the challenge …

Watching this video, we counted over 16 distinct challenges that were mentioned including (but not limited to): fragmentation of the supply chain system with different donors and poor coordination between …

Think about the state of dual practice in your country (if you don’t know who does it and how/whether it is regulated, do a little reading to find out). Are …

Discussions on human resources for health are often focused on health care providers, but what do we know about the people who regulate the providers? Sheikh and colleagues (2015) looked …

Managing human resources for health (HRH) involves understanding many factors including workforce densities and distribution; recruitment and retention, motivation and incentives. Good policy depends on good evidence about these factors, …

We’ve seen that health workers have complex motivations, incentives and disincentives which shape their behaviour; this complexity is very obvious among health workers who engage in dual practice. Dual practice …