Highlights of key initiatives 2017-2018

This document highlights the major achievement of the Ministry of Health for the period 2017-2018. Contains information about compassionate care, the strengthening of the health system , treatment of non-communicable, combating communicable diseases, protecting the health of mothers and children and rehabilitation and new investment in critical health infrastructure.

Head 23: Ministry of Health: Programme budget for the year 2016-2017

This is an extract of the Barbados Ministry of Health Programme Budget for the Year 2016-2017. It consists of selected items from the Executive Summary that relate to funding, ceiling allocation and explanations for exceeding the ceiling. As well, aspects of one of the Ministry's sub-programmes viz. the Vector Control Programme, are described.

Ministry of Health Jamaica Annual Report 2013-2014

The document details the strategic objectives of the Ministry and includes financial statements , estimates of expenditure for the period 2013 - 2014. It features a special report on the Public Health (Tobacco Control) Regulations. It also includes achievements in various programme areas for the period.

Ministry of Health and Environment Jamaica Annual Report 2008-2009

This document looks at the performance of the public health sector for the year 2008-2009. It details mission, vision and strategic objectives. Gives a feature report on communicable diseases, public population health programmes, healthcare clinical programmes, diagnostic services, control of chronic diseases, abolition of user fee, performance of the environment sector and also financial statements.

Ministry of Health and Environment Jamaica Annual Report 2007-2008

This document looks at the performance of the public health sector the year 2007-2008. Includes feature report on communicable diseases, public population health programmes, salaries and allowances, health service status and utilization and also financial statements.

Ministry of Health Jamaica Annual Report 2004

This document looks at the Ministry of Health challenges and acheivements of the Ministry for the year 2004. It details mission, vision and strategic objectives.

Ministry of Health Jamaica Annual Report 2003

This document looks at the Ministry of Health challenges and acheivements of the Ministry for the year 2003. It details mission, vision and strategic objectives.

Ministry of Health Jamaica Annual Report 2002

This document looks at the Ministry of Health challenges and acheivements of the Ministry for the year 2002. It details mission, vision and strategic objectives.

Ministry of Health Jamaica Annual Report 2001

This document looks at the Ministry of Health challenges and acheivements of the Ministry for the year 2001. It details mission, vision and strategic objectives

This document looks at the Ministry of Health challenges and acheivements of the Ministry for the year 2001. It details mission, vision and strategic objectives

Charting a future for health in the Americas: quadrennial report of the Director

Charting a Future for Health in the Americas describes the work of the Pan American Health Organization in recent years. The report opens with a disquisition on the significance of its title-how PAHO has had, and will continue to need, to chart and steer a steady course, dealing with and even capitalizing on changes along the way, in order to reach its goal: health in the Americas. With pointillistic highlights of the organization's century-long work in its major fields of responsibility, the report brings the accounting of its actions to the present. It describes the resources PAHO has employed and the impact its cooperation with member countries has had on assessing the regional health situation, enhancing health and human development, preventing and controlling diseases, promoting health, protecting the environment, and strengthening health systems and services. Morever, because of the stature it has attained, the organization has been able to strike alliances with other international agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector-and the story of their shared agenda is recounted here. This, then, is the latest in a series of reports of progress in public health throughout the Americas and, at the same time, of the work of an organization built to last (Back cover)

Ministry of Health Jamaica Annual Report 2000 / Ministry of Health Jamaica Annual Report 2000

This publication looks at challenges and achievements of the Ministry of Health for the year 2000. It contains information on the organization and management of the the health system, organization and utilization of the provision of services, health and wellbeing of the nation.

An inquiry into the equity orientation of health systems and the implications for the individual

This thesis argues that equity is a health system characteristic with potential to influence individuals' welfare. It is assumed that the influence works through access barriers that exist on both the demand and supply side (including income, quantity of services, locality of services). It is also argued that health system that are designed to minimise these barriers are more likely to be equitable. The study focuses on equity in the delivery of health care and started with the assumption that a healthy state is a desirable state and is therefore something that individuals view positively. Health care is identified as a major input into the production of health thereby resulting in a derived demand for health care. Given the possibility of random illness shocks to the health stock, the individual's main interest resides in the ability to retain access to care. This makes it possible to include access as an explicit argument in the individual's utility function and to gauge equity outcomes in the health sector by gauging the probability of access. The study makes use of a logistic regression to measure horizontal equity in the delivery of health care in Jamaica. The results indicate that inequities exist in the Jamaican health sector. Individuals with similar health needs access different levels of health care. This is strongly suggested in the case of the elderly and the more rural dwellers. However, we also observe that low-income individuals are more likely to exhibit a willlingness to access health care that their middle and upper income counterparts all else being equal, and that the health system plays an important role in the lives of the chronically ill (AU)

Decentralizing the Public Health Sector

This document looks at decentralization as one of the most critical components of the reform exercise and how it will affect the way hospitals and health centres are managed.

Towards a healthy nation: proposals for the future health-related services of Trinidad and Tobago

This document proposes what is to be done to reform and restructure the health services of Trinidad and Tobago

Towards a healthy nation: proposals for the future health-related services of Trinidad & Tobago

Proposes change for health services in Trinidad and Tobago, the key elements of which are: decentralization, target-led financing, the Ministry of Health as a policy-making body, provision of better health care, fewer but better hospitals and a national ambulance service, involvement of the private sector, more information for decision-making and proper audits and reviews. Explains the rationale for the reform indicating agencies that will bring about this reform. Outlines the components of the health service to be effected such as primary health care, primary clinical care, hospitals, support services and manpower. Indicates aspects of implementation activities put in place from the end of 1993 to early 1994 such as Regional Health Authorities Act, the involvement of the staff of the Ministry of Health in planning for health reform, training sessions in order to inform the ministry's staff about proposed changes and garnering of technical assistance to prepare for the reform (AU)