A Health Sector Strategy for the Europe and Central Asia by Verdon S Staines

By Verdon S Staines

The well-being structures inherited by means of transition international locations of Europe and significant Asia (ECA) are altering according to basic and unparalleled demanding situations. even if the specified form of health structures in lots of ECA nations is discernible, the method for purchasing there has to be invented alongside the best way. 'A wellbeing and fitness area method for the Europe and valuable Asia zone' stories substantive matters dealing with overall healthiness policymakers in ECA. It summarizes the area Bank's adventure to this point during this area and the teachings it indicates. moreover, it outlines either an exterior approach wherein the Bank's ECA healthiness employees may help nations to restructure their health and wellbeing structures and an inner process wherein the employees may perhaps set up their very own actions to accomplish this consequence. The e-book deals these outdoors the financial institution a foundation for pro discussion to foster positive switch within the Bank's methods.

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By Verdon S Staines

The well-being structures inherited by means of transition international locations of Europe and significant Asia (ECA) are altering according to basic and unparalleled demanding situations. even if the specified form of health structures in lots of ECA nations is discernible, the method for purchasing there has to be invented alongside the best way. 'A wellbeing and fitness area method for the Europe and valuable Asia zone' stories substantive matters dealing with overall healthiness policymakers in ECA. It summarizes the area Bank's adventure to this point during this area and the teachings it indicates. moreover, it outlines either an exterior approach wherein the Bank's ECA healthiness employees may help nations to restructure their health and wellbeing structures and an inner process wherein the employees may perhaps set up their very own actions to accomplish this consequence. The e-book deals these outdoors the financial institution a foundation for pro discussion to foster positive switch within the Bank's methods.

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What agendas for action does this suggest for various participants in the process? The paper highlights numerous messages and agendas for action for major players in the reform of the region's health sectors. Central ministries in ECA countries should recognize that they must orchestrate an intersectoral approach to health policy. Accordingly, they should create a council or task force that is broader than the Ministry of Health to complement and support this ministry when important influences on health status lie within the jurisdiction of other ministries.

Rather than governments providing or financing all cost-effective clinical care, for example, their role will be to ensure that the health sector as a whole is structured to provide these services. Thus, governments will seek to identify and address areas of market failure and public failure Page 3 within the health sector. Decentralization issues will have been resolved by differentiating distinct functions within a health system, assigning responsibility for each function to the most appropriate level, and then allocating revenue sources to match the responsibilities.

In short, although this pattern of health-sector change could reduce immediate fiscal concerns about health, it would not address the more fundamental economic and health concerns. 3. A stylized view of health-sector transformation in ECA. If the overall agenda is to achieve health-sector reform that recognizes intersectoral influences on health and that allows continued, uninterrupted functioning of the health system, then a series of additional questions arise. These concern key features of the desired destination of reform, its starting point, the challenges to be addressed, and the process that is most likely to accomplish the transformation.

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