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Health Policy and PRI Health Care Overview of The Course Vs 2jan 2020 (Autosaved)
Health Policy and PRI Health Care Overview of The Course Vs 2jan 2020 (Autosaved)
Context
Actors
• Individuals
• Groups
• Organization
Content Process
Context
Situational factors
Structural factors
External factors
Actors
Individuals
Groups
Orgs
Content
Process
Objectives of policy
Problem identification
Beneficiaries
Policy implementation
Benefits
Policy evalaution
Methodology for policy analysis- Eight fold
Path (Bardasch et al)
• 1.Define the problem
• 2. Assemble the evidence
• 3. Construct the alternatives
• 4. Select the criteria
• 5.Project the outcomes
• 6.Count the trade offs
• 7.Decide
• 8.Tell your story
Other topics to read about
• Stake holder analysis
• Agenda setting
• Street level bureacarcy theory
• Approaches used to influence policies
Unit 4: Reforms in the Health sector
Objectives
• Outline the main elements of reforms in the
health sector
• Describe main features of the minimum health
care package
• Discuss the rationale and objectives of
decentralization
• Discuss country experiences in decentralization of
health services with particular focus on Uganda
Health sector reform - definition
• Health sector reform deals with fundamental
change of processes in policies and
institutional arrangements of the health
sector, usually guided by the government.