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1 October 2016
Enhancing Social Accountability for Health Care in Afghanistan
Published by: Future Health Systems
In the United States and parts of Africa and Asia, community scorecards (CSCs) have improved accountability and responsiveness of services. Work supported by Future Health Systems (FHS) sought to evaluate CSC feasibility in a fragile context (Afghanistan) through joint engagement of service providers and community members in the design of patient-centred services, to assess impact on service delivery and perceived quality of care (QOC).
1 October 2016
Strengthening Capacity to Enhance Delivery: Implementation of Payment Reform in China
Published by: IDS
In 2002, China launched a voluntary health insurance scheme to provide financial protection to people affected by disease-related illness. Future Health Systems (FHS) work in Hanbin County, western China, has drawn on innovative methods from implementation and participatory research to train and support local policymakers, managers and health professionals in the evidence-based implementation of the scheme.
1 October 2016
Applying Systems Thinking to Strengthen Health Systems
Published by: Future Health Systems
Systems thinking represents a unique theoretical and practical contribution. It facilitates ways to cross disciplines, and brings previously unused tools and approaches to tackle global health implementation differently. Future Health Systems (FHS) has played a major role in applying and advocating for the approach as a means to holistically understand health systems in low- and middle-income countries, as well as adaptation and scale-up of the project’s interventions.
1 October 2016
Saving Money, Saving Lives: Community Saving Groups Lead to Improvements in Maternal and Newborn Health Care in Uganda
Published by: Future Health Systems
Future Health Systems (FHS) work on maternal and newborn health in the poorest districts of eastern Uganda has contributed to a story of community empowerment where people have learnt to prioritise, prepare and save money for childbirth. This increases the likelihood of delivery in a health facility, and therefore the chances of a healthy pregnancy and safe childbirth under skilled care.
1 October 2016
Through the Lens: Empowering Women in Vulnerable Communities to Voice their Concerns
Published by: Future Health Systems
Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodologies can help empower marginalised groups to capture and articulate their experiences and concerns to decision-makers. Future Health Systems (FHS) has worked with women in the Sundarbans of West Bengal to use Photovoice – a PAR method using photographs and narrative – to raise awareness of the challenges the women face to access health care. The initiative has led local policymakers and health workers to prioritise, and take steps to address, the issues.
1 September 2016
Working with Health Workers to Improve Maternal Health Services
Poor quality of maternal and newborn health services in Uganda have resulted in low maternal health service utilisation and high newborn mortality rates, both at home and at health facilities. The support Future Health Systems (FHS) provided to health workers to improve maternal health service delivery illustrates how a package of interventions that equips health workers with the necessary knowledge, skills and equipment, supplies and other non-financial incentives can improve the quality of maternal and newborn health service delivery.
1 September 2016
Galvanising Gender Analysis and Practice in Health Systems
Published by: Future Health Systems
Gender analysis is an important component of health systems research (HSR) as it reveals how power relations create inequalities in health system needs, experiences, and outcomes among women, men, and people of other genders. Various challenges must be overcome to successfully mainstream gender into health systems practice and research.
Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development Seminar Series
New direction in China’s social policy: roles, incentives and strategies of county governments and community-based organizations
Dr Wang Jing and Dr Liang Chen will present their work on the roles, incentives and strategies of county governments and community-based organizations in designing and delivering social policy in China.
1 July 2016
Unlocking Community Capability: Key to More Responsive, Resilient and Equitable Health Systems
Published by: IDS
Communities are more than a geographic location; they are a site of struggle and also a dynamic engine of change. Unlocking their capabilities to strengthen health systems requires understanding and adapting to local context, engaging a diversity of actors and working with the productive tensions inherent to collective action.