Ministry of Health and National Governments
MoH and national government partners set forward-looking national health policies, strengthen health systems, roll-out national public health programs, and deliver on international health commitments. They aim to increase access to quality, affordable care and achieve Universal Health Coverage
Characteristics and Strengths
- Set national health priorities and design large-scale national public health programs
- Lead health sector reform agenda
- Guide the production, recruitment, and deployment of human resource for health, including community health workforce
- Regulate both public and private health service providers
- Set development cooperation policies and priorities in the health sector
- Provide financial resources to sub-national governments
- Work closely with other ministries and sub-national governments to execute national health policies
- Compete with other ministries and government line agencies for resources
- Have access to large-scale funding from multilateral and bilateral international agencies
- Have an appreciation for the role of digital technology in healthcare
- May have developed and rolled-out national digital health strategy
- Responsible for setting digital technology and data standards
- Often have an institutional home to anchor national digital health programs
- May have some in-house capacity to deploy and implement digital health tools
- Are often looking to establish partnerships for leveraging digital health technologies
- Are leveraging data and data science to innovate on new approaches to achieving desired health outcomes
- Have access to health systems data from the deployment of a new model of care
- May have already invested significantly in proprietary locked-in software
Values
- Safeguarding the health rights of the citizens
- International commitments in health, e.g. UHC, SDG, etc.
- National ownership of public health programs
- National capacities to govern and manage community health programs
- Cost-effectiveness
- Government adoption and sustainability
Needs
- Health systems strengthening support to keep up with growing population needs and tackle emerging public health challenges, e.g. NCDs
- Regular political commitments for increased spending in public health
- Integration and interoperability of digital health technologies
- Better data systems for evidence-based planning and monitoring
- Capacity and resources to govern and manage digital health programs
- HCD and data science capabilities
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Last modified 01.06.2020: update partner personas (86e88ac)