OOMPH Library Resources: PHW 209 Comparative Health Systems: Websites & Resources

A standard set of core indicators prioritized by the global community to provide concise information on the health situation and trends, including responses at national and global levels.

Tracking the sources and uses of financial resources in the health sector has taken place for over 20 years, using Health Accounts and other mechanisms. Site includes strategies, messaging, methods & tools.

Includes link to Tracking universal health coverage: 2017 Global Monitoring Report, Infographics, and information on the essentials of universal health coverage: financing, workforce, essential drugs, statistics, governance, and delivery.

Tools to strengthen health information systems and improve decision making in the health sector. Content areas include:
Data Demand and Use
Evaluation
Family Planning & Reproductive Health
Gender
Geographic Information Systems
Health Information Systems
HIV and AIDS
Infectious Diseases
Monitoring & Evaluation
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Population, Health & Environment
Poverty

CHESAI works to provide systematic opportunities and environments for deepening the health policy and systems research knowledge base, particularly for understanding and impacting on complex health systems. Links to the Health Policy & Systems Teaching Resources: reference material, case studies, modules, and more, as well as other resources.

The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable. The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy. An international program in health policy is designed to stimulate innovative policies and practices in the United States and other industrialized countries. Data, publications, surveys are available on their site.

Supports and promotes evidence-based health policy-making through comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the dynamics of health care systems in Europe. Site links to Health Systems and Policy Monitor; Health system reviews; and more.

The Evidence Project uses implementation science—the strategic generation, translation, and use of evidence—to improve family planning policies, programs, and practices: investigating which strategies work best in improving, expanding, and sustaining family planning services, and evaluating how to implement and scale up those strategies.

A non-profit organization focused on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. KFF develops and runs policy analysis, journalism and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with major news organizations. We serve as a non-partisan source of facts, analysis and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community and the public.

IHME is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington that provides measurements of the global health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. Data visualizations and country reports are available, as is information from the Global Burden of Disease project.

PATH accelerates innovation across five platforms--vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations

Using best practices and innovative approaches, the project develops and implements robust logistics solutions, fosters supportive commodity security environments, procures and ships health commodities, and partners with local organizations to build sustainable capacity. Handbooks and videos are available.