Baltussen, Rob and Mwalim, Omar and Blanchet, Karl and Carballo, Manuel and Teshome Eregata, Getachew and Hailu, Alemayehu and Huda, Maryam and Jama, Mohamed and Johansson, Kjell Arne and Reynolds, Teri and Raza, Wajeeha and Mallender, Jacque and Majdzadeh, Seyed-Reza (2023) Decision-making processes for essential packages of health services: experience from six countries. BMJ Global Health, 8 (Suppl ). e010704-e010704. DOI https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010704 (In Press)
Baltussen, Rob and Mwalim, Omar and Blanchet, Karl and Carballo, Manuel and Teshome Eregata, Getachew and Hailu, Alemayehu and Huda, Maryam and Jama, Mohamed and Johansson, Kjell Arne and Reynolds, Teri and Raza, Wajeeha and Mallender, Jacque and Majdzadeh, Seyed-Reza (2023) Decision-making processes for essential packages of health services: experience from six countries. BMJ Global Health, 8 (Suppl ). e010704-e010704. DOI https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010704 (In Press)
Baltussen, Rob and Mwalim, Omar and Blanchet, Karl and Carballo, Manuel and Teshome Eregata, Getachew and Hailu, Alemayehu and Huda, Maryam and Jama, Mohamed and Johansson, Kjell Arne and Reynolds, Teri and Raza, Wajeeha and Mallender, Jacque and Majdzadeh, Seyed-Reza (2023) Decision-making processes for essential packages of health services: experience from six countries. BMJ Global Health, 8 (Suppl ). e010704-e010704. DOI https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-010704 (In Press)
Abstract
Many countries around the world strive for universal health coverage, and an essential packages of health services (EPHS) is a central policy instrument for countries to achieve this. It defines the coverage of services that are made available, as well as the proportion of the costs that are covered from different financial schemes and who can receive these services. This paper reports on the development of an analytical framework on the decision-making process of EPHS revision, and the review of practices of six countries (Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan and Zanzibar-Tanzania). The analytical framework distinguishes the practical organisation, fairness and institutionalisation of decision-making processes. The review shows that countries: (1) largely follow a similar practical stepwise process but differ in their implementation of some steps, such as the choice of decision criteria; (2) promote fairness in their EPHS process by involving a range of stakeholders, which in the case of Zanzibar included patients and community members; (3) are transparent in terms of at least some of the steps of their decision-making process and (4) in terms of institutionalisation, express a high degree of political will for ongoing EPHS revision with almost all countries having a designated governing institute for EPHS revision. We advise countries to organise meaningful stakeholder involvement and foster the transparency of the decision-making process, as these are key to fairness in decision-making. We also recommend countries to take steps towards the institutionalisation of their EPHS revision process.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Public Health |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Health and Social Care, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2023 18:49 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2024 20:18 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/34168 |
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