​​​For countries wanting to strengthen health budget execution, learning about promising approaches used by others is one thing but putting them into practice is another. This blog reveals how two countries, Lao PDR and Peru, adapted promising practices and began to implement them.

Ministries of health know that priority setting is important, but explicit priority-setting processes — processes that are inclusive, transparent, and informed by evidence — often are not institutionalized. This blog shares the promising practices being used in several countries.

This brief includes a set of suggested competencies developed in collaboration with a diverse group of stakeholders from around the world who identified them as essential for the health workforce.

LHSS is proud to present at the Global Digital Health Forum, December 5-7, 2022, in Arlington, Virginia.

This technical guidance document provides a summary of principal findings that highlight those complex factors including a literature review, surveys, resource mapping, case studies including key informant interviews, and the development of a theory of change.

This case study examines how Côte d’Ivoire’s DREAMS program incorporates Social Determinants of Health elements into HIV service delivery, as well as the related processes and key lessons learned.

This case study describes and analyzes the Eswatini Nursing Council's efforts to strengthen the competence of nursing graduates to address the population’s health needs by introducing entry-to-practice competencies as the basis for a national licensing examination, and for incorporating Social Determinants of Health into these competencies.

This case study describes and analyzes Patan Academy of Health Science’s efforts and contributes to the knowledge base on how to maximize the positive impact of integrating Social Determinants of Health into the education and training of health workers.

How can countries make progress towards good health budget execution? In this latest blog in our budget execution series, ministry of health practitioners from eight countries offer lessons based on their own experiences and shared learning. 

Through an LHSS-Joint Learning Network learning exchange, health practitioners from seven countries are sharing successful experiences and promising practices to institutionalize explicit national priority-setting processes for health. The goal? To help countries set equitable national health priorities and ensure that these priorities are reflected in national health plans and budgets.

Both Ghana and Bangladesh have implemented health budget accountability mechanisms. Their experiences offer practical lessons that other countries can adapt to their own budget execution needs. 

This brief explores ways in which digital tools and systems can be used successfully and responsibly to advance SBC interventions in support of health system strengthening, and provides recommendations for future programming and areas of research.

What do Lao PDR, Malaysia, and Kenya have in common? All three countries have strengthened their budget structures and processes to enable good health budget execution. Their experiences hold valuable lessons for others striving to increase budget execution and unlock significant resources for health.

Late last year, health sector practitioners from eight countries met to tackle the issue head-on as participants in the Joint Learning Network Health Budget Execution Learning Exchange. They made meaningful progress.

In this webinar, we discuss promising practices for establishing a learning culture. Dr. Malangizo Mbewe, Acting Director, Quality Management Department, Ministry of Health and Population in Malawi, also shares his experience establishing systems to support continuous quality improvement.