Myanmar

This website contains brief country reports on HRH development activities in 2008 from nations belonging to the Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on HRH.

This report presents the findings from an assessment of the contraceptive method mix in Myanmar focusing on birth spacing, the providers of birth spacing services (public, private, NGO) and the information needs of these health pracitioners. [adapted from publisher’s summary]

The township health system in Myanmar is regarded as means to achieve the end of an equitable, efficient and effective health system based on the principles of primary health care approach. A township hospital caters medical care at the second referral level. Under the leadership and management of a Township Medical Officer in each township, para-professionals deployed at Rural Health Centers (RHCs) and Sub-centers under each RHC’s jurisdiction play key roles for providing primary health care services for rural population. There had been an expansion of township hospital beds, RHCs and Sub-centers during the past 15 years.

This brief article provides a general introduction to HRH policy and the HRH situation in Myanmar.