Courtesy of Mayur Desai and Erika LinnaderResearchers at the Yale School of Public Health recently evaluated a multi-year health policy and management initiative they launched in Ethiopia, identifying novel ways to enhance global primary care systems. Erika Linnander, director of Yale’s Global Health Leadership Initiative, currently leads the Primary Healthcare Transformation Initiative, which is a multi-year effort to create a culture of performance management and accountability in Ethiopia’s district health offices. In a recent paper published in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management, Linnander and her team of researchers examined the effects of zonal-level management practices in the Ethiopian healthcare systems. The Primary Healthcare Transformation Initiative provided professionals with a master’s level education on health management, created the position of hospital CEO and shifted health management responsibilities from clinicians to professional managers. Efforts by the Primary Healthcare Transformation Initiative resulted in improved standards of management practices across three levels –– zonal, district and health facility.

Source: Ethiopian News March 10, 2022 04:11 UTC