HSRC REPORT: This paper aims to contribute to the development of common understanding of the reality in countries where most poor people live and to formulate practical strategies for meeting the needs of the poor. It explores the use of different strategies and frameworks that take into account the different contexts prevalent in developing countries, to better understand the role of public and private sectors in health service delivery.
Vimal Kumar, principal consultant in the Oxford Policy Management Health team, discusses the importance of procurement and supply chain management in supporting effective policy reforms. Ensuring availability, affordability, and quality of commodities (for example medicines) to provide services to the patients is one of the key outcomes which procurement and supply chain management establishes. This… Read more
Capacity building is an important element in health for successfully tackling social health inequalities by improving the capacity of health actors and institutions at national, regional, and local levels. Capacity building looks at “development of sustainable skills, organisational structures, resources, and commitment to health improvement in health and other sectors, to prolong and multiply health gains”…. Read more
