Policy Points: Strengthening accountability through better measurement and reporting is
vital to ensure progress in improving quality primary health care (PHC) systems and …

Introduction The 2018 Astana Declaration reaffirmed global commitment to primary
healthcare (PHC) as a core strategy to achieve universal health coverage. To meet this …

Abstract—Health gains oftentimes associated with income growth have been stubbornly
slow in Nigeria in the past 25 years. One plausible reason for this stagnation is …

Primary health care (PHC) has been recognized as a core component of effective health
systems since the early part of the twentieth century. However, despite notable progress …

Background The science of measuring and reporting on the performance of healthcare
systems is rapidly evolving. In the past decade, across many jurisdictions, organisations …

Over the last five years, WHO has undertaken a major effort to establish a common
conceptual framework for health systems performance assessment, to foster the further …

Ensuring a robust and resilient health system involves policy actions which need to be
implemented based on the best available evidence. This requires health systems to be …

Background Primary health care and its strengthening through performance measurement is
essential for sustainably working towards universal health coverage. Existing performance …

In a world where there is increasing demand for the performance of health providers to be
measured, there is a need for a more strategic vision of the role that performance …

Background Quality health services build communities' and patients' trust in health care. It
enhances the acceptability of services and increases health service coverage. Quality …