Monitoring the building blocks of health systems: a handbook of indicators and their measurement strategies

ABSTRACT

Increased attention to the strengthening of health systems would not be sustainable in the absence of a sound monitoring strategy that enables decision-makers to accurately track health progress and performance, evaluate impact, and ensure accountability at country and global levels. This handbook describes a set of indicators and related measurement strategies, structured around the WHO framework that describes health systems in terms of six "building blocks" service delivery, health workforce, information, medicines, financing and governance.(AU)