Global Health: Strengthening Health Systems

CapacityPlus is a global project focused on building the health workforce needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

R4D focuses on the key elements of strong health systems, from sustainable financing to scaling innovations, to using data for decision-making, and works with change agents to support the development of context-specific, evidence-based solutions.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) published their Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) approach to meet its strategic goals of ending preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths and promoting the health and development of all children and reducing inequities in health.

USAID works on strengthening health systems with a particular focus on the priority health issues: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, maternal and child health, and reproductive health.

Provides links to resources for building good health systems.

This document reviews evidence gathered over the last 40 years, and explains why progress on PHC, as originally envisioned, has been mixed. It provides a detailed description of how the components of PHC might evolve, and ends with an appealing and achievable vision for PHC in the 21st century.