Lessons from the Development Process of the Afghanistan Integrated Package of Essential Health Services

Overview

Journal BMJ Glob Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 2023 Sep 29

PMID 37775105

Authors

Sayed Ataullah Saeedzai

Karl Blanchet

Ala Alwan

Najibullah Safi

Ahmad Salehi

Neha S Singh

Gerard Joseph Abou Jaoude

Shafiq Mirzazada

Wahid Majrooh

Ahmad Jan Naeem

Jolene Skordis-Worral

Zulfiqar A Bhutta

Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli

Fahrad Farewar

Isabelle Lange

William Newbrander

Ritsuko Kakuma

Teri Reynolds

Ferozuddin Feroz

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Abstract

In 2017, in the middle of the armed conflict with the Taliban, the Ministry of Public Health decided that the Afghan health system needed a well-defined priority package of health services taking into account the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases and injuries and benefiting from the latest evidence published by DCP3. This leads to a 2-year process involving data analysis, modelling and national consultations, which produce this Integrated Package of Essential health Services (IPEHS). The IPEHS was finalised just before the takeover by the Taliban and could not be implemented. The Afghanistan experience has highlighted the need to address not only the content of a more comprehensive benefit package, but also its implementation and financing. The IPEHS could be used as a basis to help professionals and the new authorities to define their priorities.

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