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Population Targeting: An issue of trust – and technical complexity – for health leaders
As so many health systems move towards social health insurance, the issue of who should receive this at no or low cost is becoming increasingly important. The topic can quickly become highly technical and move well beyond most health practitioners’ core skills – comparing different ‘proxies’ and formulae for assessing wealth and income, as well as methods for collecting and verifying this data.
Leveraging Provider Payment to Incentivize Performance and Quality: Monitoring Quality Health Services
Incentivizing quality is a topic that comes up repeatedly as a learning objective for country members of the JLN’s PHC Financing and Payment Collaborative. As countries work towards universal health coverage, evidence is pointing to the fact that universal health coverage (UHC) is grounded in quality PHC. When we measure progress in UHC, we look […]
Designing Primary Health Care Network Service Delivery Models in Makueni County, Kenya to Increase Access to Primary Health Care
Strong primary health care (PHC) can speed up a country’s journey towards universal health coverage (UHC) rapidly, effectively, and efficiently. The current COVID-19 pandemic has shown that all countries, particularly the lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs), need to deliver comprehensive PHC services in alignment with countries’ needs, whether maternal and child health services, infectious diseases […]
A world of possibilities: How should digital health companies partner with healthcare payers to support scale-up?
This blog provides the third of a series of three perspectives from the Patient Pathways and Pandemics Community of Practice on the ‘NCD Care’ app with PharmAccess in Ghana.
Pivoting COVID-19 innovations to UHC: Is 2022 a year digital health moves up a gear?
This blog provides the first of a series of three perspectives from the Patient Pathways and Pandemics Community of Practice on the ‘NCD Care’ app with PharmAccess in Ghana.
Could digital platforms enhance clinicians’ health coaching skills? Reflections on technology-powered NCD services following the COVID-19 pandemic
This blog provides the second of a series of three perspectives from the Patient Pathways and Pandemics Community of Practice on the ‘NCD Care’ app with PharmAccess in Ghana.
National Coordination of Pandemic Responses Collaborative Learning Event
The current COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be devastating for health systems globally. To slow the spread of the virus and to reduce its toll, country leaders must manage strong systems-focused, multi-sectoral coordination, planning, and monitoring. To support countries, Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) and the Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator (Accelerator) facilitated a year-long learning collaborative to help country leaders learn from each other on various topics, including how to create and manage the cross-sectoral teams to mount a coordinated response to the pandemic, developing pandemic/epidemic preparedness and response strategies, and strengthening coordination across sectors and across different levels of government to ensure a prompt and effective response.
Rehabilitation and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Webinar
Did you know that one third of the world’s population needs rehabilitation at some point in the course of their illness or injury? Yet rehabilitation is often underprioritized in countries’ health systems and UHC strategies. In early 2022, the Health Systems Strengthening Accelerator is partnering with the JLN to launch a webinar that will bring together UHC and rehabilitation leaders to exchange country experiences with rehabilitation, including how (or whether) it is integrated in service delivery, conversations around UHC, and COVID-19 pandemic responses.