A highly functioning national health information system (HIS) facilitates transparent and evidence-based decision making that ultimately leads to improvements in the health status of a country’s population. Rather than reflecting a single structure through which routine health statistics
The Government of India has prioritized 184 of the 640 districts in the country for focused maternal and child health interventions under an integrated program called the Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) initiative. A
Guyana’s success in reducing HIV prevalence, coupled with the global decline in HIV/AIDS funding, necessitates an examination of the financial sustainability of Guyana’s AIDS program. The aim of this document is to provide Guyana’s National AIDS Program Secretariat (NAPS) with an analysis of the unit costs and financial and human resources available and needed to […]
Strengthening Guyana‘s health system requires an understanding of its unique strengths and weaknesses. This Health Systems Assessment (HSA), conducted in 2010, provides a comprehensive assessment of key system functions organized around six technical modules, aligned with the World Health Organization‘s health system building blocks: governance, health financing, service delivery, human resources for health (HRH), pharmaceutical […]
