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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.
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.
This brief identifies systems considerations for CHW career progression, including health workforce education and training, regulation and policy, management, and financing.
This methodological and pedagogical manual offers guidelines for the development of the Health Education (EpS) process within the framework of the Comprehensive Health Care Routes (RIAS). These routes represent a significant shift in Colombia's public health policy by prioritizing health education.
La boîte à outils vise à combler une lacune dans les conseils pratiques pour l’EPS dans les programmes de lutte contre le paludisme. Il contient des orientations, des ressources et des exemples étape par étape pour développer des activités d’ESP, dans le but global d’équiper les acteurs au niveau des pays pour stimuler une plus grande participation du secteur privé à la lutte et à l’élimination du paludisme et contribuer à des résultats durables au niveau local. La boîte à outils est disponible en anglais et en frech.
The toolkit aims to address a gap in practical guidance for PSE in malaria programming. It contains step-by-step guidance, resources, and examples for developing PSE activities, with the overall goal of equipping country-level actors to stimulate greater private sector participation in malaria control and elimination and contribute to locally sustained results. The toolkit is available in English and French.
This brief includes a global evidence review of DFS for health conducted by LHSS and an analysis of two programmatic case studies of DFS for health by Management Sciences for Health (MSH) through the Digital Square initiative.
This Spanish report describes the actions carried out for the development of micro-planning of vaccination strategies and tactics at the territorial level in Colombia, highlighting the successful experiences that were managed in the territories to advance vaccination against COVID-19.
This report describes the activities implemented for microplanning vaccination strategies and tactics at the territorial level in Colombia, highlighting the territorial entities’ successful experiences managing COVID-19 vaccination.
This Spanish report summarizes the actions carried out for the development of micro-planning of vaccination strategies and tactics at the territorial level, highlighting the successful experiences that were managed in the territories to advance vaccination against COVID-19.
This report provides an overview of the community-level communication activities aimed at preventing COVID-19 transmission and promoting vaccination.
This English report describes the communication activities developed at the community level aimed at preventing transmission of the virus and promoting COVID-19 vaccination.
This Spanish report provides an overview of community-level communication activities aimed at preventing COVID-19 transmission and promoting vaccination.
The purpose of this Spanish report is to describe the communication actions at the community level, developed for the prevention of contagion and promotion of vaccination against COVID-19.
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.