Resource Spotlight: Policy Options for Strengthening Health Leadership and Management Capacity in Six Asian and Pacific Island Countries


 
Policy Options for Strengthening Health Leadership and Management Capacity in Six Asian and Pacific Island Countries
Policy Options

Health systems need competent and effective managers and leaders to deliver services efficiently. For low and middle income countries confronting the multiple challenges of HIV/AIDS, high maternal and neonatal mortality, inequities in access to quality services, shortage and maldistribution of health personnel, effective management and leadership is particularly critical. WHO has identified weak leadership and management capacity as an impediment to scaling up priority interventions and attaining the health-related millennium development goals.

The policy options presented in this paper are based on a desk review of the current status of health leadership and management capacity in six Asia Pacific countries undertaken by the Human Resources for Health Knowledge Hub. The countries involved are Cambodia, Fiji, Lao PDR, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. Leadership and management capacity at the district level is the unit of analysis. Information from key in-country informants was incorporated in the analysis. [adapted from author]

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The HRH Global Resource Center has other resources on this topic including:

  • Reviewing Progress, Renewing Commitment: Progress Report on the Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action
  • Health Service Planning and Policy-Making: a Toolkit for Nurses and Midwives
  • Evidence from Systematic Reviews of Effects to Inform Policy-Making about Optimizing the Supply, Improving the Distribution, Increasing the Efficiency and Enhancing the Performance of Health Workers
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