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Costing of Service Provision at the Mount St. John’s Medical Centre in Antigua and Barbuda: Final Report

Resource Type: Report Authors: Subrata Routh Published: 06/2013 Resource Description: As a part of the United States-Caribbean Regional HIV and AIDS Partnership Framework 2010-2014, USAID/Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean asked the Health Systems 20/20 Project to help the Ministry of Health in Antigua and Barbuda accomplish costing assessments for the primary health and outpatient HIV/AIDS services in […]

Template for Health Systems Strengthening Program Evaluation Approach

Resource Type: Tool Authors: Itamar Katz, Grace Chee, Alexandra Hulme, and Sayaka Koseki Published: 9/1/2012 Resource Description: This Excel file, “Template for the Health Systems Strengthening Program Evaluation,” accompanies the Framework and Guideline for the Assessment and Evaluation of Health Systems Strengthening Programs, designed to provide insight into the effects of ongoing interventions that aim to strengthen specific […]

The Health System Assessment Approach: A How-to Manual Version 2.0

Resource Type: Tool Authors: Health Systems 20/20 Published: 9/1/2012 Resource Description: In order to design effective strategies for creating a strong health system, countries first must have access to critical information on the strengths and limitations of their system. An effective assessment tool must be flexible and participatory in order to respond to the context specific […]

Framework and Guideline for the Assessment and Evaluation of Health Systems Strengthening Programs

Resource Type: Report Authors: Itamar Katz, Grace Chee, Alexandra Hulme, and Sayaka Koseki Published: 9/1/2012 Resource Description: The framework and guideline for the assessment and evaluation of health systems strengthening (HSS) programs are designed to provide insight into the effects of ongoing interventions that aim to strengthen specific elements of a health system. This document was developed […]

National Health Accounts Production Tool Brief

Resource Type: Brief, Tool Authors: Douglas Glandon Published: 5/1/2012 Resource Description: The National Health Accounts (NHA) framework is an internationally standardized methodology for measuring financial resource flows in the health sector. NHA is designed to provide health expenditure information to policy makers and stakeholders in ways that can be clearly and directly linked to a country’s health financing concerns and health system performance; therefore, it has […]

HAPSAT 2.0 Software: Hands-on Exercise

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Itamar Katz and Wendy Wong Published: 1/1/2012 Resource Description: Objectives: Enable users to become familiar with the HAPSAT software and how to populate the tool Enable users to practice manipulating the output data to conduct scenario-based analyses Sections: Worksheets discussed in the section Estimated time for exercise. The total estimated time for the entire […]

HIV/AIDS Program Sustainability Analysis Tool (HAPSAT) 2.0

Resource Type:  Tool Authors: Health Systems 20/20 Published: 8/12/2011 Resource Description: The HIV/AIDS Program Sustainability Analysis Tool (HAPSAT) was developed by the USAID funded Health Systems 20/20 Project to assist governments and donors with the development of HIV/AIDS policies and implementation plans. HAPSAT utilizes a computer-based model for forecasting and analyzing the sustainability of HIV/AIDS programs during periods […]

Paying for Performance in Health: Guide to Developing the Blueprint 2.0

Resource Type: Tool Authors: Rena Eichler and Susna De Published: 4/1/2011 Resource Description: Pay for performance (P4P) is an innovative approach that explicitly links financial investment in health to health results. While the P4P concept seems relatively straightforward, the mechanics of its implementation need to be planned very carefully to elicit the desired behavior change in a given […]

Health Insurance Handbook: How to Make it Work

Resource Type: Tool Authors: Hong Wang, Kimberly Switlick, Christine Ortiz, Catherine Connor, and Beatriz Zurita Published: 6/1/2010 Resource Description: The Health Insurance Handbook provides policymakers and health insurance designers with practical, action-oriented support to deepen their understanding of health insurance concepts, help them identify design and implementation challenges, and define realistic steps for the development and scaling up […]

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