Health Systems Strengthening Comprehensive Assessment

Health systems are organizations, groups of people, or individuals who intend to support, maintain, and promote health in various ways. It primarily means structures that aim to enhance health and health equity worldwide while navigating financial challenges in the healthcare landscape.
At One Health Global Alliance, we seek to bridge the gaps in health systems through comprehensive assessment, consultation, collaborative efforts, and capacity building. Our goal is to foster partnerships that will allow to proactively deal with global health issues and strive towards building a better planet.

Why Health Systems Strengthening Matters?

A health system is founded upon six corner stones: service delivery, an active and healthy workforce, medical products, vaccines and advanced technologies, information, financing, and leadership and governance.
Strengthening health systems requires both technical and political support, including strategies and actions. OHGA is committed to assist organizations and professionals working as health systems in undertaking measures including training, workforce capacity development programs, and leadership development training to strengthen their functioning.
Before undertaking any measures, we partner with institutions to understand why strengthening the health system matters.

Our Approach to a Comprehensive Health System Assessment

At OHGA, our consultative engagement will include developing comprehensive health system assessment frameworks that help evaluate health systems’ efficiency and performance. The assessment involves collecting and analyzing data, document reviews, interviews, and even site visits to identify strengths, weaknesses, scopes of improvements, and potential weaknesses in the health system.
Here’s a detailed breakdown of our comprehensive health system assessment approach.

Underlining the scope of assessment:

We clearly define the scope of assessing the health system, which includes all its core areas, including service delivery, health policy, health services, and health governance and leadership.

Define objectives:

We establish the goals of assessing the health systems, such as identifying impacts on global health outcomes, flaws in health security, or any gaps in financial or technical support.

Data collection and analysis:

This is the critical stage of comprehensive health system assessment, in which we collect and evaluate all types of data from different sources. These include policy documents, performance reports, and essential datasets that reveal the health system's functioning.

SWOT analysis:

We analyze the collected data to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in the health systems. This helps us identify areas of the existing health systems that are working effectively and what needs to be improved.

Reporting and drawing findings:

We prepare an all-inclusive assessment report that presents all the findings and our recommendations for strategies for improving health systems. We also enhance the dissemination of the reports to relevant persons like policymakers, health system managers, and other stakeholders.

Strategic Planning and Roadmapping from Assessment to Action

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines strategic initiatives and a roadmap to strengthening the health system, including every step from assessment to action. Organizations or people working to reinforce health systems in developing countries or regions worldwide must align their strategic initiatives through these steps.

1

Defining strategic goals:

OHGA works with organizations to identify the key areas they need to emphasize to deliver better-quality health care services.

2

Setting goals and metrics:

OHGA partners with organizations to set measurable and achievable objectives that align with their health systems’ decided strategic priorities.

3

Developing a strategic plan:

OHGA works with partners to develop a comprehensive strategic plan that entails health system improvement strategies, such as workforce capacity development or skills development for professionals.

4

Implementing and monitoring the plan:

OHGA subject matter experts will work closely with partners to implement and put the plan into action, measure its progress in the future, and make improvements.

To make strategic health initiatives a reality, organizations need to follow the given steps of road mapping:

  • Step 1

    Underlining initiatives:

    OHGA will work closely with partner organizations to further break down the comprehensive strategic initiatives into smaller projects or tasks that can be accomplished within a short/ reasonable time periods.  OHGA will ensure each initiative will contribute to your health system strategic goals.
  • Step 2

    Adjusting timeframe

    OHGA will play advisory roles to set realistic timeframes for undertaking and accomplishing each initiative and tackling challenges or risks.
  • Step 3

    Customizing roadmap

    With the assistance of OHGA’s subject matter global health experts, we will help organizations to better visualize their plan and customize the roadmap to progress quickly and efficiently. 
  • Step 4

    Setting milestones:

    OHGA will work collaboratively with its partner countries/ institutions to set achievable milestones regarding the strengthening of their health systems, track progress, identify roadblocks, and celebrate every milestone achievement.
  • Step 5

    Estimating and mobilizing financial and other resources:

    An inevitable step of road mapping is estimating the budget and resources, including the health workforce, financial support, and technical developments, needed to undertake each strategic initiative. OHGA experts will work closely with partners achieving the goals of estimating budgets as well as mobilizing funding resources
With these steps of strategic planning and road-mapping, OHGA will work actively with organizations or people with the aim of strengthening health systems and contributing to delivering quality health services using the One Health approach.

Empowering Your Healthcare Workforce

Building capacity of organization through workforce empowerment is a prime way to strengthen health systems. It is one of the building blocks that help focus on the policy instruments and implementation of the strategic health initiatives.
At One Health Global Alliance, we offer a comprehensive hub for pre-service and in-service (workforce) training educational resources to empower professionals and organizations involved in strengthening health systems. Below are our approach that we will implement on-demand and will allow partners achieve their goals within a short-time period and efficient manner.

Training modules and certifications:

OHGA on-demand subject matter experts will work with partner universities, research organizations, and industry experts to develop specialized training programs and certifications to partner institutions and professionals. The on-demand short modular courses include pandemic preparedness and response (PPR); epidemiology of zoonotic diseases, prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance; public health systems management; biosecurity and biosafety; genomics and bioinformatics; pharmaco-epidemiology, research ethics; meta-leadership for global health and environmental health.

Custom Learning Programs:

Tailored to organizational needs and proposed by partner organizations, OHGA subject matter experts will develop on-demand interactive modules and real-world case studies, including certificate programs. OHGA’s role will be to prepare professionals and organizations to make an impact at the global level through the local/ national/ regional health systems.

Leadership development:

OHGA training programs equip people in healthcare settings with leadership skills to champion health initiatives and bring sustainable changes through their healthcare careers.

Continuing Education:

OHGA Membership will also have access to updated asynchronous learning modules content, exclusive webinars, and professional development tools. OHGA Academy ensures ongoing education for professionals, assisting them in bringing positive changes and improvements to the health systems.

Why Choose One Health Global Alliance?

As a unified platform for consulting, learning access, implementation, and global networking, One Health Global Alliance assists in strengthening health systems. See what makes us a trusted space for organizations seeking expertise to solve challenges and improve their health systems.

Consultation:

OHGA offers high-value consultation services that help organizations, including private, public, and non-governmental organizations, to handle the challenges in their health systems.

Capacity building:

Our subject matter experts are capable of developing on-demand learning and training modules, developed with collaborative efforts of healthcare workforce training institutes, help in healthcare capacity building. OHGA experts help organizations deal with global health challenges, reemphasize their ongoing efforts, and enhance the resilience of their health systems.

Global network:

OHGA brings together a vast network of industry, foundations, public entities and NGOs to engage, share knowledge, and co-create impactful innovation that contributes to global health services.

Learning support:

OHGA team of experts impart customized learning and Professional training solutions that help organizations strengthen their health systems.

Feel free to contact us for advice or to learn more about addressing your short-, mid-term and long-terms needs of strengthening health systems!

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Are you prepared to turn the world into a better place together? Reach out to our team at One Health Global Alliance to explore partnerships, concepts, or find out how we are creating healthier communities around the world. Let’s connect and make a difference.

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