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An Approach to Addressing Governance from a Health System Framework Perspective

As countries strive to strengthen their health systems in resource constrained contexts, policy makers need to know how best to improve the performance of their health systems. This paper reviews contemporary health sector frameworks which have focused on defining and developing indicators to assess governance in the health sector.

Publication Year:

2011

Publisher

SPARC

Author:

Inez Mikkelsen-Lopez, Kaspar Wyss & Don de Savigny
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Since 2018, The Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) has been a unique and significant force in supporting countries within Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) in crucial areas of strategic health purchasing (SHP), Healthcare Financing as they make progress towards the realization of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals. This initiative, a collaboration between Amref Health Africa and Results for Development (R4D), has made expertise in these areas more accessible and has been instrumental in the progress of the target countries. The initiative was designed to advance policy discussions and actions that strengthen the application of strategic health purchasing to strengthen African health systems and support countries as they address foundational reforms…

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