Participant from Art competition, WHD 2019
Health system governance
Health systems governance encompasses the processes, structures and institutions that are in place to oversee and manage a country's healthcare system. It means ensuring strategic policy frameworks exist and are combined with effective oversight, coalition-building, provision of appropriate regulations and incentives, attention to system design, and accountability.
A fundamental governance role is strategic, efficient and equitable planning and allocation of healthcare resources, and mechanisms for monitoring, evaluating and reviewing the healthcare system’s performance.
National Health Sector Support Programme (NHSSP)
Social participation is defined as empowering people, communities and civil society, through inclusive participation in decision-making processes that affect health, across the policy cycle and at all levels of the system.
Voice, agency, empowerment - handbook on social participation for universal health coverage
It is equally important to strategize effective governance arrangements between governments and the private sector, with the goal of ensuring that private sector activities align with health system objectives.
