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Beyond Production: Using Health Financing Information to Inform Decisions that Improve Health Systems

 
Beyond Production: Using Health Financing Information to Inform Decisions that Improve Health Systems

Health financing information – such as information on a country’s health spending, health costs, and efficiency – is vital to making informed decisions about national health systems. Yet, while good-quality information is available to many ministries of health, there is great variability among countries in whether and how the information is used. Indeed, good-quality health financing information alone does not guarantee its use: decision makers balance many other factors when choosing a course of action.

In its six years supporting the production and analysis of health financing information, USAID’s Health Finance and Governance project (2012-2018) observed that strong country ownership in producing and analyzing information, plus strategic packaging of information to reach specific audiences, were key elements in ensuring the use of health financing information for decision making.

Authors: Karishmah Bhuwanee, Stephen Musau, Heather Cogswell
Published: 2018
Pages: 16

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