Learning and knowledge sharing are fundamental to the LHSS Project. We invite you to search LHSS knowledge products and resources for the latest approaches, insights, and learning in the field of integrated health systems strengthening.
![Summary Adapting and Validating the Primary Health Care Assessment Tool in Colombia](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-10/Annotation%202023-10-11%20000311.png?itok=XDk8-X7V)
This document describes the interventions implemented by the Local Health System Sustainability Project (LHSS) to evaluate and modify the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT) for Colombia and create an application to compile and analyze data from the tool’s surveys. This tool and its application will help health providers to access data on Primary Health Care (PHC) services, which can be used to improve decision-making and policy formulation within the health care sector. This is an English language summary of the full report, which is available in Spanish.
![Adaptación y validación de la herramienta de evaluación de la Atención Primaria en Salud (PCAT)1 en Colombia](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-10/Annotation%202023-10-11%20000310.png?itok=oWZDNQ7O)
This Spanish report addresses the adaptation and validation of the Primary Health Care Evaluation (PCAT) tool in Colombia. In the context of the reform of the General Social Security System in Health and the Primary Health Care (PHC) strategy, it focuses on the relevance of health education and the implementation of comprehensive service networks.
![chw brief](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-10/Annotation%202023-10-11%20000300.png?itok=3uPymrde)
This brief identifies systems considerations for CHW career progression, including health workforce education and training, regulation and policy, management, and financing.
![IGAD WORKSHOP PHOTO](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-02/IGAD%20Workshop%20photo.jpg?itok=yvyinq3o)
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), with support from LHSS, commenced the first Technical Workshop on strengthening domestication and implementation of regional Health cross–border policies, in Bishoftu, Ethiopia.
![Bangladesh MSC infographic](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-10/Annotation%202023-10-02%20034757.png?itok=WniXQ6IJ)
The Most Significant Change (MSC) is a complexity-aware monitoring approach that helps us track and understand important changes happening in systems, practices, organizations, and people. LHSS Bangladesh has applied this MSC tool to identify, evaluate, and understand the most substantial changes within our primary health care system functions.
![afghanistan factsheet](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-09/afghanistan%20factsheet.png?itok=PRcRKyU4)
LHSS works with the private sector in Afghanistan to expand the scale, quality, accessibility, and affordability of health products and services for maternal and child health, family planning, tuberculosis, improved nutrition, and prevention of noncommunicable diseases.
![Bangladesh FACTSHEET](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-08/BANGLADESH%20FACTSHEET.png?itok=2iyBH3A6)
LHSS Bnagladesh is helping to identify and implement localized solutions to ensure that urban residents can access and afford high-quality primary health care services.
The Local Government Division and LHSS organized a workshop on primary health care plans in Sylhet. This workshop sought to foster collaboration, knowledge exchange, and resource mobilization for the successful implementation of primary health care implementation plans within the urban areas of the country.
![social accouontability and sbc](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-08/social%20accountability%20and%20sbc.png?itok=LFsSvShj)
This brief highlights the recent shifts in health systems practice toward more explicitly incorporating an SBC lens in social accountability activities that aim to improve overall health system performance and address inequities. The brief synthesizes the growing body of evidence on the role social accountability plays in increasing accessibility to better-quality health care services and uses case studies and lessons learned to highlight how SBC approaches can be more explicitly integrated into this aspect of HSS programming.
This learning brief captures LHSS’s experience in supporting municipal-level partners through the contracting process and distills emerging lessons to inspire other municipalities to pursue public-private partnerships as a vehicle for expanding access to urban PHC services.
This brief presents what LHSS has learned through applying a systems thinking approach to its support for HSCs’ advocacy efforts in expanding PHC services in urban Bangladesh.
An estimated 170,000 people contract TB each year in Vietnam. The new e-LMIS system helps ensure a reliable drug supply for those who need treatment.
The manual clearly identifies the engagement mechanisms where REBAS-TL/CSOs could participate to discuss health issues that impact the population at national and municipality levels.
his document captures the progress so far in improving CSO-MoH engagement and the next steps.
This short handbook presents information and guidance to inform the advocacy efforts of REBAS-TL and its member CSOs.