Health sector reform in Mali, 1989-1996 - TropMed Central Antwerp ...
Health sector reform in Mali, 1989-1996 - TropMed Central Antwerp ...
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of the area.<br />
• Guarantees a m<strong>in</strong>imum package of<br />
services to the community of the area<br />
so long as the ComHC is f<strong>in</strong>ancially<br />
sound and bound by agreement.<br />
• Strengthens a sense of “ownership”<br />
and, for village participants, of hav<strong>in</strong>g<br />
a role <strong>in</strong> shap<strong>in</strong>g the health area<br />
• The actual map and its<br />
implementation (ComHC) evolves<br />
slowly ow<strong>in</strong>g to the fact that<br />
reciprocal commitments of partners<br />
(community and government) depend<br />
on the results of negotiations. The<br />
process makes the ga<strong>in</strong>s robust, and<br />
helps to anchor them.<br />
THE MPS<br />
Negotiations<br />
preventive care activities and favor their<br />
total subsidy by the State<br />
• Time-consum<strong>in</strong>g<br />
• Agreement is often not unanimous<br />
• Villages may refuse to stick to the health<br />
map, or hav<strong>in</strong>g signed on to it, may<br />
decide to withdraw<br />
Process<br />
• Negotiations can drag on.<br />
• Instability can threaten the plan’s<br />
viability if defect<strong>in</strong>g villages f<strong>in</strong>d<br />
alternative solutions too quickly.<br />
• Modifications should cease with<br />
implementation to provide opportunity<br />
and time to expand the agreement to<br />
non-participat<strong>in</strong>g villages.<br />
The situational analyses of the first districts to develop plans all focused<br />
beyond the diversity of their situations towards a unified structure for a<br />
curative, preventive, and promotional “package of health services”. Apart<br />
from the burdens and priorities attributed to each problem <strong>in</strong> a given area,<br />
the similarities were strik<strong>in</strong>g, even when the teams carry<strong>in</strong>g out the exercise<br />
were different. The similarity was sufficient to def<strong>in</strong>e a m<strong>in</strong>imum package of<br />
health care services (MPS): this def<strong>in</strong>ition had important consequences for<br />
plann<strong>in</strong>g and programm<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> all health areas (nature and importance of<br />
equipment, <strong>in</strong>itial provision of drugs, tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, support for management,<br />
structure of the premises, personnel needs, and so on).<br />
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