In close partnership with the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia (MOH), the Accelerator has finalized a landscape analysis and accompanying policy brief to assess Ethiopia’s health system readiness for rehabilitation service integration at the primary healthcare level and to provide evidence-based recommendations to the MOH on how to increase provision of and access to rehabilitation services …
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Timely, safe, and effective access to safe blood services can make the difference between life and death for a mother.
The Health Systems Strengthening Practice Spotlight series is an initiative of USAID’s Office of Health Systems. HSS Practice Spotlight briefs contribute to the global knowledge base in health system strengthening and support implementation of both USAID’s Vision for Health System Strengthening 2030 and the accompanying Health System Strengthening Learning Agenda. By documenting approaches that work, …
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“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 …
Opportunities on the Way to Universal Health Coverage Download Rehabilitation in Health Financing 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 …
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Georgia is taking steps to extend financial protection for rehabilitation services through the Universal Health Coverage Program (UHCP).
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 …
This webinar will focus on the initial steps that can be taken to integrate social and behavior change into health systems programming.
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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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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