Resource Page: Making Integrated Health Systems Work for Priority Services : Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator

Resource Page: Making Integrated Health Systems Work for Priority Services

These resources provide insights into health systems strengthening approaches for programs and services historically funded and delivered vertically, including rehabilitation services, COVID-19 immunization, and safe blood systems.

WHO Bulletin: How to become a strategic purchaser of rehabilitation services

In this article published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, R4D’s Tamara Chikhradze, Emma Brainerd, Adeel Ishtiaq and Reva Alperson share how policymakers in middle-income countries can leverage strategic purchasing to improve rehabilitation services outcomes — and promote the integration of rehabilitation services into health systems.
Guidance to identify barriers in blood services using the blood system self-assessment (BSS) Tool

WHO developed a blood system self-assessment tool to help stakeholders assess their blood systems through a stepwise questionnaire identifying its strengths and challenges.
Policy Brief: Integrating Rehabilitation into Primary Health Care in Ethiopia

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 increasing the provision of and access to rehabilitation services through this integration.
Georgian state rehabilitation program: implementation research study report

Georgia embarked on integrating rehabilitation services into Universal Healthcare (UHC), and this implementation research aims to document initial results and challenges to inform and facilitate the program's timely scale-up beyond the initial package of interventions.

Resource Page: Making Integrated Health Systems Work for Priority Services

WHO Bulletin: How to become a strategic purchaser of rehabilitation services

Guidance to identify barriers in blood services using the blood system self-assessment (BSS) Tool

Policy Brief: Integrating Rehabilitation into Primary Health Care in Ethiopia

Georgian state rehabilitation program: implementation research study report