This presentation slide deck provides an overview of six key steps for financing a community health system: aligning political will to policy costing creating a "case" engaging funders building a gap analysis identifying new sources … [Read more...] about Financing Alliance for Health Financing Curriculum
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Financing Alliance for Health Community Health Financing Compendium
Developed by Financing Alliance for Health, this compendium aims to support governments, i.e., ministries of health and finance, with information as they assess how to finance community health systems. More and more governments are formalizing their community health systems in Africa Financing is a critical enabler of these efforts; health system financing typically … [Read more...] about Financing Alliance for Health Community Health Financing Compendium
Strengthening Primary Health Care through Community Health Workers: Closing the $2 Billion Gap
This report strengthens the knowledge base around the need for community health financing and draws lessons from two unique examples—Zambia and Ethiopia—on financing pathways to secure additional resources. … [Read more...] about Strengthening Primary Health Care through Community Health Workers: Closing the $2 Billion Gap
When financial incentives backfire: A community health worker experiment in Uganda
CHWs sometimes charge for health products like those used to treat child diarrhea, but limited research has examined whether or not a fee-for-service model improves CHW performance. Zachary Wagner and his team compared the performance of Uganda-based CHWs who charged for their services against those who did not. Those who charged for their services conducted fewer household … [Read more...] about When financial incentives backfire: A community health worker experiment in Uganda
How do decision-makers use evidence in community health policy and financing decisions? A qualitative study and conceptual framework in four African countries.
Decisions about whether and how to finance and support close-to-community community health programming are best driven by evidence about what “works,” but a recent study by Meghan Bruce Kumar and her team suggests that the evidence base is limited. The researchers took a look at financing decisions in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawai, and Mozambique to model their decision making … [Read more...] about How do decision-makers use evidence in community health policy and financing decisions? A qualitative study and conceptual framework in four African countries.
