Politiques de Santé et Prestation de Services (HPS)
Health Sector Reviews
The focus is on:
- Supporting countries in conducting their annual health sector reviews in collaboration with other partners.
- Supporting countries in the development of appropriate indicators for use during the health sector reviews.
- Establishing mechanisms for facilitating learning from the experience of other countries and regions for continuous improvement of quality of health services.
- Promoting the dissemination of best practices between regions and districts within countries
By the end of 2007, a total of 11 countries reviewed the roles of hospitals in national health systems, shared good practices, identified hospital performance indicators and made recommendations for strengthening hospitals. National health policies and plans from 37 countries were analysed to assess the extent to which priority programmes such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and child and maternal health were considered. A framework for policy analysis was developed and applied to analyze health policies and strategic plans.
During the last four years there was an increase of 47% regarding the percentage of countries that have institutionalize annual health sector review binging the number of countries to 28 from 19 countries. However, up to 16 countries are yet to institutionalize health sector reviews. Standardized approach is under development to facilitate the process in countries.