Thèmes de santé — Health Systems and Services (HSS)

Health Systems Strengthening

Health systems strengthening refers to initiatives and strategies that improve one or more of the functions of the health system and that leads to better health through improvements in access, coverage, quality, or efficiency, ensuring it can address health threats. A well-functioning health system is built on having trained and motivated health workers, a well-maintained infrastructure, and a reliable supply of medicines and technologies, appropriate service delivery approaches, backed by adequate funding, all these articulated in strong health plans and evidence-based policies.

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Digital Health

eHealth is the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health. eHealth can be used in treating patients, conducting research, educating the health workforce, tracking diseases and monitoring public health.

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Health Financing

Building resilient health systems that can provide needed services to people requires strong financing and governance capacities of national authorities. WHO supports Member States to design, implement and monitor health financing policies to reduce the number of people suffering financial hardship when accessing essential health care services. WHO also supports countries in the development, imple

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Health Workforce

Countries in the WHO African Region have made measurable progress in strengthening their health workforce, which expanded from 1.6 million in 2013 to 5.1 million in 2022. This progress has been driven by increased training outputs, policy reforms and growing political commitment to workforce development. Across the Region, approximately 4,000 health training institutions collectively produce about

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Sanitation

Sanitation generally refers to the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human urine and faeces.

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Violence

Violence and Injuries are a major public health problem and cause death and harm to several million people each year.

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