HIS 2.3 WHO HSF

For the purpose of clearly discussing what the World Health Organization (WHO) will do to help strengthen health systems, the functions identified in the WHO report (2000) have been broken down into a set of six essential groups.

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For the purpose of clearly discussing what the World Health Organization (WHO) will do to help strengthen health systems, the functions identified in the WHO report (2000) have been broken down into a set of five essential groups.

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WHO SIX ESSENTIAL GROUPS:

• Service Delivery and Health Work Force

• Information and medical products, vaccines and technology

• Financing and leadership and governance

• Stewardship and health provisions

1. those which deliver effective, safe, quality personal and non-personal health interventions to those who need them, when and where needed, with minimum waste of resources.

• Service Delivery

• Health Work Force

• Information

• Financing

• Medical Products, Vaccines, and Technology

one which works in ways that are responsive, fair, and efficient to achieve the best health outcomes possible, given the available resources and circumstances.

• Service Delivery

• Health Work Force

• Information

• Financing

• Medical Products, Vaccines, and Technology

For example, there are sufficient numbers and mix of staff, fairly distributed; they are competent, responsive, and productive.

• Service Delivery

• Health Work Force

• Information

• Financing

• Medical Products, Vaccines, and Technology

1. one that ensures the production, analysis, dissemination, and use of reliable and timely information on health determinants, health systems performance, and health status.

• Service Delivery

• Health Work Force

• Information

• Financing

• Medical Products, Vaccines, and Technology

1. ensure equitable access to essential medical products, vaccines and technologies of assured quality, safety, efficacy and cost- effectiveness, and their scientifically sound and cost-effective use.

• Leadership and Governance

• Health Work Force

• Information

• Financing

• Medical Products, Vaccines, and Technology

1. raises adequate funds for health, in ways that ensure people can use needed services and are protected from financial catastrophe or impoverishment associated with having to pay for them.

• Leadership and Governance

• Health Work Force

• Information

• Financing

• Medical Products, Vaccines, and Technology

1. involve ensuring strategic policy frameworks exist and are combined with effective stewardship, coalition-building, the provision of appropriate regulations and incentives, attention to system-design, and accountability.

• Leadership and Governance

• Health Work Force

• Information

• Financing

• Medical Products, Vaccines, and Technology