Download or read book Voice agency empowerment handbook on social participation for universal health coverage written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social participation is an important means for governments to develop responsive health policies and programmes, which are more likely to be implemented by a broad stakeholder group. It is at the heart of the inclusive governance needed for countries to stake their individual paths towards Universal Health Coverage while ensuring that no one is left behind. As simple as it may seem in theory, it is a complex undertaking in practice, one which policy-makers struggle with. The Handbook on Social Participation for UHC is thus designed to provide practical guidance, anchored in conceptual clarifications, on strengthening meaningful government engagement with the population, communities, and civil society for national health policy-making. It draws on best practices and lessons learned to support government institutions in setting up, fine-tuning, improving, and institutionalizing new or existing participatory health governance mechanisms. The handbook follows through the different tasks which policy-makers must reflect on and undertake when bringing in people’s voice into health policy-making. Examples include creating an enabling environment for participation, ensuring good representation, strengthening capacities, increasing policy-uptake of participatory process results, and sustaining participatory engagement over time. A fundamental premise of the handbook rests on the idea that policy-makers can leverage format and design elements of a participatory process to address power dynamics amongst participants, thereby fostering more meaningful contributions to the process.

Download or read book Social participation for universal health coverage technical paper written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technical paper distils key messages from the World Health Organization publication “Voice, agency, empowerment – handbook on social participation for universal health coverage”, along with feedback from a multistakeholder consultation process to identify priority actions for Member States to institutionalize social participation in decision-making processes for health. Social participation is defined as empowering people, communities and civil society, through inclusive participation in decision-making processes that affect health, across the policy cycle and at all levels of the system. It is core to primary health care and promotes equitable progress towards universal health coverage, producing more responsive health policies and programmes, and helping to foster population trust with the health system. While Member States have endorsed the principle of social participation, translation into practice has been inadequate. The following priority actions are identified: (a) Strengthen government capacities to design and implement social participation (b) Secure equitable, diverse and inclusive representation (c) Ensure that social participation informs decision-making for health across the policy cycle (d) Systematize and sustain regular social participation, including through legal frameworks (e) Invest adequate, stable and predictable financial resources for social participation (f) Facilitate capacity strengthening and financial resources for civil society (g) Monitor and use data and evidence routinely to evaluate participatory processes and their impact on decisions made.

Download or read book Supporting integration of social accountability processes in family planning and contraceptive service provision written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook for conducting assessments of barriers to effective coverage with health services written by Theadora Swift KOLLER and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the most recent data available , 4.5 billion people were not fully covered by essential health services in their countries in 2021. Likewise, in 2019, the total population experiencing financial hardship was estimated to be 2 billion people. To scale up action to leave no one behind, WHO’s Fourteenth General Programme of Work, 2025-2028 (GPW 14) has an explicit and strong commitment to equity. In support of this, WHO has released a handbook with methods for the identification of barriers to effective coverage with health services. The 8-module handbook applies mixed method research approaches -- grounded in the Tanahashi framework for effective coverage -- to focus on barriers experienced by potential users and non-users of health services. The handbook facilitates the capturing of evidence on the interface between the population and the services. The handbook has four objectives. 1.To orient national authorities and partners on key concepts, definitions, frameworks and principles relevant to barriers assessments. 2.To build the capacity of national authorities and partners to design a research plan and apply diverse methods (e.g. informant interviews, literature reviews, quantitative analysis and focus groups) in barriers assessments. 3.To provide guidance for reporting on barrier assessment findings in a clear and actionable manner and convening key stakeholders to deliberate next steps. 4.To adapt the methods for humanitarian contexts, accounting for the need for differentiated approaches.

Download or read book Long term care for older people package for universal health coverage written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-05-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication includes a list of LTC interventions that all countries could consider, prioritize and provide and could integrate within health and social care sectors, depending on their context. The package should be implemented in line with overall plans to design, establish and expand formal, integrated LTC systems and services towards universal health coverage (UHC). The package is intended primarily for governments and policy-makers responsible for planning and implementing LTC service provision at national or subnational level. It provides guidance in foreseeing and mainstreaming essential LTC interventions, which can be contextualized according to local needs and resources. The package is neither a clinical guideline for LTC service providers in daily practice nor a manual, standard operating procedures or specific steps.

Download or read book The path towards universal health coverage written by Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guidance for national strategic planning NSP health sector response to HIV viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Universal health coverage partnership annual report 2020 written by and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Implementing citizen engagement within evidence informed policy making written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This overview provides a fundamental understanding of citizen engagement (CE) and its relevance to the evidence-informed policy (EIP) work of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Member States. The document introduces readers to the rationale and concept of CE, outlining its conceptual strengths, implications and practical applications. It serves to justify and promote the integration of citizens’ voices as a crucial and underutilized form of evidence in policy- and decision-making. This overview document is the first in a series of WHO publications on the topic of CE in EIP. Subsequent resources will include practical guides and toolkits.

Download or read book Universal health coverage partnership annual report 2021 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Critical considerations and actions for achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health in the context of universal health coverage through a primary health care approach written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Connectedness Resilience and Empowerment written by Daniel Muia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how aspects of connectedness, resilience and empowerment are intertwined in community development processes. It explicitly brings together these elements in the context of community development and well-being, helping foster an understanding of how each influences the other. With chapters contributed by scholars from around the globe, this volume provides insights into how these elements of community influence and support the quality of life of communities. While several of the chapters address the foundational and theoretical bases of community development as well as community well-being, others address topical and emergent areas of interest in community development practice and scholarship. Underscoring the chapters is an awareness of the importance of the community spirit, which is the voice and agency of people coming together to encourage social transformation. A key element of the book is also to help foster change for the better in communities. This book is of interest to researchers and professionals working in the area of community engagement and development, particularly those in resource-poor countries.

Download or read book Primary health care and HIV convergent actions Policy considerations for decision makers written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2030 health-related Sustainable Development Goals call on countries to end AIDS as a public health threat and also to achieve universal health coverage. The World Health Organization (WHO) promotes primary health care (PHC) as the key mechanism for achieving universal health coverage, and the PHC approach is also essential for ending AIDS and reaching other Sustainable Development Goal targets. This publication helps decision-makers to consider and optimize the synergies between existing and future assets and investments intended for both PHC and disease-specific responses, including HIV.

Download or read book Health system resilience indicators written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The package of health system resilience indicators serves as a dedicated resource to measure and monitor health system resilience in routine operations as well as in the context of disruptive shocks and stressors. This work addresses an identified gap in measurement and monitoring of health system resilience. It complements the Health Systems Resilience Toolkit and supports implementation of the recommendations in WHO’s position paper on building health system resilience for UHC and health security. The package aims to support countries to progressively build their capacities to measure, monitor and build health system resilience from national to subnational levels covering health facilities and other service delivery platforms. It emphasizes an integrated approach to health system strengthening underpinned by essential public health functions, encompassing health emergency preparedness. It includes: - guidance on how to utilize and adapt the health system resilience indicators, including a step-by-step guide - a suite of recommended health system resilience indicators with technical specifications - supplementary indicators of relevance to health system resilience The primary target audience for this package is national and subnational health authorities (including planners and managers) and service providers, as well as local, regional, and global technical organizations and partners working on health system strengthening, including WHO, United Nations country teams, donors, nongovernment organizations, development and humanitarian agencies, and other health-related technical agencies.

Download or read book Citizen engagement in evidence informed policy making written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide focuses on a specific form of citizen engagement, namely mini-publics, and their potential to be adapted to a variety of contexts. Mini-publics are forums that include a cross-section of the population selected through civic lottery to participate in evidenceinformed deliberation to inform policy and action. The term refers to a diverse set of democratic innovations to engage citizens in policy-making. This guide provides an overview of how to organize mini-publics in the health sector. It is a practical companion to the 2022 Overview report, Implementing citizen engagement within evidence-informed policy-making. Both documents examine and encourage contributions that citizens can make to advance WHO’s mission to achieve universal health coverage. Anyone interested in, or planning to organize citizen engagement in evidence-informed policy-making can use this guide to find relevant information on how to conduct a minipublic. The guide also offers a structured learning process for organizers, commissioners and facilitators who use the guide to develop an actual citizen engagement project. The structure of the guide allows for flexibility and context-specific circumstances that affect the organizing of a mini-public.

Download or read book Health system performance assessment written by Irene PAPANICOLAS and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ensuring a robust and resilient health system involves policy actions which need to be implemented based on the best available evidence. This requires health systems to be monitored regularly to build on their strengths and to overcome any apparent shortcomings. In order to assist in that process, this volume, a collaboration between the World Health Organization and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, presents a new framework to support monitoring of health system performance, with a focus on detailed conceptual links between health system functions and overall system goals. This HSPA framework for Universal Health Coverage thus represents a comprehensive attempt to address fundamental questions regarding regular assessment of health systems, including health system boundaries, component elements and outcomes. In this book, each of the health system function chapters outlines the purpose of the function, the sub-functions that enable it to carry out the key activities necessary to fulfil its purpose, as well as the assessment areas and proposed indicative measures to evaluate how well a system performs. The framework will thus assist policy-makers in understanding possible origins or impact of poor performance on a particular health system outcome, triggering more in-depth analysis.

Download or read book Implementation playbook pocket edition a quick reference guide to delivering impact for health with tools and templates written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Implementation Playbook is designed to support effective implementation to achieve measurable progress toward health-related targets. It is ultimately based on the core principle that data and planning are not sufficient endpoints in and of themselves: you need to keep asking what for? in order to initiate actions that will keep up the momentum of your implementation efforts and the likelihood of reaching the desired results. This Pocket Edition of the Implementation Playbook is a consolidated version of the core content, and intended to be a “ready-to-use”, quick access guide for those involved in or supporting implementation efforts.