Capacity for analytic policy planning in many developing countries is inadequate to support health reforms being implemented. The combination of inadequate training, unreliable data, corruptive influences, and a command-control management style are often at work to make it difficult to accept a more analytical approach to setting priorities and directions for action. Even where there are potentially valuable data resources, they are often unknown and unused by Ministries of Health.
In Egypt, we have been engaged for about two years to help the MOHP officials develop rationalization plans using computer policy simulation tools. These tools are set up using local data and planning norms developed from local data.
The work to date has had impact, as planners of curative-care hospital beds have used the training and computer tools to evaluate options for sizing facilities and used the tools to develop a 5 year bed construction plan for the country as a whole. The paper describes in greater depth the methods, tools and results achieved through this effort.
Learning Objectives: Importance of evidence based planning capacity building to reform
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