Health systems development

Health Systems consist of all the people and actions whose primary purpose is to promote, restore or maintain health. To build a system with these intents is also working towards other objectives such as services delivered with responsiveness to people´s expectations and to their financial protection.

This includes efforts to influence determinants of health as well as more direct health-improving activities. A health system is therefore more than the pyramid of publicly owned facilities that deliver personal health services. It includes, for example, a mother caring for a sick child at home, private providers, behavior change programs, health campaigns, health insurance organizations, occupational health and safety legislation.

Health systems may be integrated and centrally directed, but often they are not. They have contributed enormously to better health, but their contribution could still be greater, especially for the poor, children, youth and women. Difficulties to achieve that potential are due more to systemic failures than to technical limitations. It is therefore urgent to assess current performance and to judge how health systems can increase their outcome.

Indevelop has, in addition to in-house expertise, access to around 100 consultants in our network specialized in:

• structured health service delivery
• health financing and reimbursement
• health workforce
• assessment and implementation of medical technologies
• health management/leadership and good governance

Our network of consultants are all highly experienced and capable to contribute to improved health, increased responsiveness, proper risk protection and improved efficiency through better access and high quality health services. In principle all our consultants and specialists are prepared to operate all over the program management cycle to include analysis, RBM, LFA, implementation, follow-up and evaluations as well as most aspects of capacity development. We are well prepared to work both on Nordic as well as international development market segments.

Contact person: Johan Dahlstrand