Public sector reform
Public health services are strongly influenced by the government administrative systems within which they are situated. Many countries are reforming their public sectors.
These reforms include changes to the number of public sector workers and their terms and conditions of employment, decentralisation of many functions to local governments and the creation of new kinds of relationships between the public and private sectors. It is important to understand the likely impact of these reforms on health systems.
- Decentralisation in Asian health sectors: friend or foe?
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This policy brief examines whether or not healthcare decentralisation in Asia has been successful. The report draws on examples from China, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines. The brief highlights several lessons learned from the decentralisation programmes of these countries.
Recommended readings
- Rethinking decentralisation in developing countries
- ( J. Litvack; J. Ahmad; R. Bird / World Bank , 1998)
- Is decentralisation good or bad for efficiency, equity and macroeconomic stability? This paper, written for the World Bank by the Public Sector Group and the Decentralisation Thematic Group in the Pov...
- Decentralization and human resources: implications and impact
- ( R-L. Kolehmainen-Aitken / Management Sciences for Health , 1998)
- What issues arise when considering human resources and health sector decentralisation programs in developing countries? This paper, published in Human Resources for health Development Journal, written...
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- Targeting aid funds towards health services in Afghanistan
- ( S. Simmonds;F. Ferozuddin / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK , 2008)
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How can aid funds best be spent in areas of high instability? This scoping study from the British Department for International Development (DFID) argues that development funds would have the m...
- Achieving improvements in Afghan health care
- ( Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , 2006)
- The Ministry of Public Health of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has adopted the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for use as a tool to measure and manage performance in delivery of the Basic Package of He...
- Delivering basic health services in Afghanistan
- ( D.H. Peters;A. A. Noor;L. P. Singh / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2007)
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The Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan has developed a balanced scorecard (BSC) to regularly monitor the progress of its strategy to deliver a basic package of health services. Although frequ...
