This guide is a companion to the Using Health Data to Improve Universal Health Coverage case studies published in December 2018 and serves as a starting point for countries to assess their data use maturity, identify areas of possible improvement, and apply lessons from the case studies to their context.
The Vertical Integration Diagnostic and Readiness Tool can help leaders in low and middle-income countries to successfully assess and implement vertical integration policies, programs, and pilots by guiding them through reviews of the overall policies, regulatory and institutional environments, the readiness of organizations to launch vertical integration initiatives; and to assess vertical integration practices across the different tiers of a country’s health system.
Designing Health Benefits Policies: A Country Assessment Guide: This jointly produced and piloted assessment guide, developed by the six countries listed above, guides countries in prioritizing and thinking through the complex web of decisions that must be considered when developing, implementing or reforming a benefits package within a comprehensive health benefits policy.
The Measuring the Performance of Primary Health Care toolkit serves as a practical guide to address common measurement challenges faced by countries, to support their collection of more useful data on PHC system performance and effectively use this data to improve performance.
This is a jointly produced and piloted assessment guide developed by the six countries listed above. The guide can be used by countries to assess country health regulatory systems, and to better understand challenges and opportunities related to regulating private PHC.