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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. 

 

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Podcast

LHSS Chief of Party in Peru, Paulina Giusti learns what three organizations in Peru and Colombia are doing to improve access and link people with mental health needs to the services they require through psychosocial support networks.

Country/region: ColombiaPeru
Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health Equity
Timor-Leste Health Labor Market Analysis
Publication

The health labor market analysis aims to provide an overview and analysis of the current status of the health workforce in Timor-Leste. The findings will serve as an essential resource for the MOH in building and managing a health workforce that is fit-for-purpose and fit-for-practice, as it develops the next iteration of the multi-year NSPHRH.

Country/region: Timor-Leste
Experiences in Implementing Health Worker Productivity Reforms in Timor-Leste
Brief

USAID and the MOH collaborated to improve health workforce management in Timor-Leste, focusing on job descriptions and evaluations. Moving forward, in-person training and institutionalization are recommended for sustainable implementation, aiming to enhance health care services and employee development.

Country/region: Timor-Leste
Empowering Mental Health LHSS Colombia’s Multifaceted Approach
Video

LHSS Colombia collaborated with national and local health authorities to address the mental health challenges exacerbated by the pandemic and mixed migration.

Country/region: Colombia
Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health
Colombia strengthens health systems for migrants
News

LHSS Colombia works with national governments to enhance the health system, focusing on local leadership, care, and integration in cities with high migratory flows like Bogotá, Cali, and Medellín.

Country/region: Colombia
Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health
HSS Practice Spotlight Brief Integrating and Including Migrants in National Health Systems
Brief

With increased migration around the world posing unique challenges and opportunities for health systems, efforts to better integrate and include migrants and host communities in national health systems are an integral part of the global health equity agenda. 

Country/region: GlobalColombiaPeru
Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health Equity
TL News Story 3.4
News

USAID | Timor-Leste and the Ministry of Health launched a groundbreaking initiative to bolster professional competence of health professionals to deliver and improve quality of health care services in Timor-Leste.

Country/region: Timor-Leste
Nigeria success story Feb 22
Success Story

Improved referral system helps those experiencing poverty in Nasarawa State to better access to secondary care.

Country/region: Nigeria
Core 27 HSS Spotlight brief SDOH
Brief

This brief introduces the social determinants of health (SDOH) concept and terminology, and discusses approaches to addressing SDOH. Understanding these root causes of health inequities and their impact on health care access, quality, and equity is crucial to strengthening health systems.

Country/region: Global
caja de herramientas
Tool

This toolkit provides Colombia’s territorial entities with the tools they need to tackle stigma and unconscious bias within the health sector in order to strengthen their capacity to provide equitable health care services to all members of the population, particularly in high migration settings.

Country/region: Colombia
Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health Equity
GRANTS SUCCESS STORY
Success Story

LHSS grants help nontraditional partners play a larger role in strengthening Peru’s health system.

Country/region: Peru
Operationalizing the National Quality Policy and Strategy: Review of Progress in 37 Countries
Publication

LHSS conducted a study of 37 countries to provide a better understanding of the strengths, opportunities, and gaps in the structures governing the provision of quality health services.

Country/region: Global
Development and Implementation of the National Quality Policy and Strategy Experience from Rwanda and Zambia
Publication

This report details case studies from Rwanda and Zambia which offer unique insights into the operationalization of National Quality Policies and Strategy (NQPS) within broader governance and quality of care reforms.

Country/region: Global
USAID SALUTIA news
News

To strengthen institutional capacities in the Mandatory Health Quality Assurance System of the Ministry of Health of Cúcuta, the Communidades Saludables of USAID and the Fundación Salutia delivered the Health Quality Management Model with its technological tool TGUÍA – IV.

Country/region: Colombia
Tetun TL FACTSHEET
Publication

USAID nia Atividade ba Sustentabilidade Sistema Saúde iha Timor-Leste nia objetivu mak atu fortalese governasaun setor saúde, dezenvolve mekanismu ba finansiamentu saúde ida ne’ebe sustentável, fortalese jestaun forsa traballu saúde, promove hahalok saudavel, no mobiliza sosiedade sivil.

Country/region: Timor-Leste
 

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