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04 December 2021

Costing of Health Services for Provider Payment: A Practical Manual Based on Country Costing Challenges, Trade-Offs, and Solutions

Others Others
This manual goes beyond traditional guidelines on cost analysis by providing practical options to overcome real-life challenges associated with costing in low- and middle-income countries. These challenges include resource limitations, data constraints, …
Tool
04 December 2021

Designing and Implementing Health Care Provider Payment Systems: How-to Manuals

Others Others
This volume provides step-by-step guidelines for developing appropriate and effective payment systems for health purchasers in low- and middle-income countries. It is dedicated to helping countries understand how to pay providers and how to design, build, …
Tool
04 December 2021

Linking Private Primary Health Care Networks to Sustainable Domestic Financing: A Practical Guide for Network Managers

Health Services Maternal and Child Health Primary Health Care Others
  This process-orientated guide is intended for organizations working with private health care providers, as well as for health financing experts. It provides technical guidance, templates, and practical country examples for planning and conducting …
Tool
04 December 2021

Health System Assessment (HSA) Approach (v3.): A How-to Manual

Others Data for Governance
This approach has a structured, indicator-based methodology for comprehensive assessment of a country’s health system. It synthesizes information—from document reviews, in-country stakeholder interviews, and site visits—to identify the strengths, …
Tool
04 December 2021

Country Readiness Diagnostic for Public-Private Partnerships

Health Services Others
This tool assesses a country’s readiness to implement public-private partnerships (PPPs). The tools help determine which areas require change or improvement by reviewing the PPP environment and comparing it to global best practice standards. Although it …
Tool
04 December 2021

UHC Primary Health Care Self-Assessment Tool

Health Policy Primary Health Care
This is a rapid diagnostic instrument (multi-stakeholder survey) for identifying practical policy opportunities in the health system to improve the relationship between health financing and primary health care (PHC) efforts. It helps accomplish the …
Tool
04 December 2021

Provider Mapping Software

Health Services Others
Software for a web platform for storing and browsing the location and capabilities of medical facilities. It can provide useful contextual information on whether private providers exist where government wants to partner with them (or where there are gaps …
Tool
04 December 2021

Rapid Health Systems Integration Assessment Tool

Health Policy Others
  This document serves as a simple guide and provides a toolkit for conducting a rapid health systems integration assessment for public-private engagement. This tool can help users to understand potential pathways or barriers for integration (and …
Tool
29 October 2021

An Action Plan to Engage the Private Health Service Delivery Sector in the Response to COVID-19

Health Emergencies Others
In response to COVID-19, WHO advises governments to take a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach to their response efforts. This approach should include drawing on the capacities and resources of the private health sector (including commercial …
Tool
29 October 2021

A Guide to Contracting for Health Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Emergencies Others
Drawing on private sector resources is critical as, in many countries, it is a dominant provider of health services, including for the poor. One important tool for increasing capacity in this way is contracting. This primer offers a practical introduction …
Tool
29 October 2021

Regulation of Private Primary Health Care: A Country Assessment Guide

Health Policy Others
This document offers guidance on assessing how a country regulates the private health sector and producing a report that offers helpful insights and recommendations. It discusses research methodology and details an eight-step assessment process, as well …
Tool
29 October 2021

Guidebook on Public-Private Partnership in Hospital Management

Others Others
This guidebook offers readers (government an public sector organizations) a guide for the development of a public-private partnership (PPP) in hospital management through six simple, customizable steps. While this guidebook is mostly based on experiences …
Tool
29 October 2021

Private Health Policy Toolkit for Africa

Health Policy Others
The tools presented in this report help readers design strategies and approaches for engaging the private sector in a health system. Topics are organized into five modules outlining specific activities that can expand and tighten private health sector …
Tool
29 October 2021

The Public-Private Dialogue Handbook: A Toolkit for Business Environment Reformers

Health Policy Others
This handbook makes available practical guidance and advice to stakeholders who want to build and maintain public-private dialogue (PPD). It explains the rationale and guiding principles behind PPD, then goes into detail with practical guidance on how to …