Essential Health Services: The Democratic Republic of The Congo
Categories: Health Insurance (CBHI, SHI), Home Page Map, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH), Publications, Universal Health Coverage
Essential Package of Health Services Country Snapshot
Resource Type: Brief
Authors: Jenna Wright
Published: July 2015
Resource Description:
An Essential Package of Health Services (EPHS) can be defined as the package of services that the government is providing or is aspiring to provide to its citizens in an equitable manner.
This country snapshot is one in a series of 24 snapshots looking at the governance dimensions of Essential Packages of Health Services in the Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Death priority countries. The snapshot explores several important dimensions of the EPHS in the country, such as how government policies contribute to the service coverage, population coverage, and financial coverage of the package.
The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo began reforming and decentralizing the health sector with its National Health System Strengthening Strategy in 2006. The latest National Health Development Plan 2011–2015 continues to implement the strategy laid out in this document. To support decentralization, the government published the Compendium of Health Zone Standards in 2006, which established a minimum package of activities (PMA) for health centers and a complementary package of activities (PCA) for hospitals. These two packages together comprise the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s EPHS.
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Essential Package of Health Services and Health Benefit Plans Mapping Brief
Resource Type: Brief
Authors: Jeena Mathew, Onaopemipo Abiodun
Published: June 2017
Resource Description:
Many governments are scaling up health benefit plans, such as social health insurance, to increase population health coverage. This brief presents findings from a mapping between the services covered under the country’s prominent health benefit plan(s) to the country’s Essential Package of Health Services. The mapping analyzes the extent to which the plan(s) cover essential services.
This brief presents HFG’s findings and observations for policymakers and program managers seeking to promote alignment of services in the EPHS with services covered in the HBP and move toward universal health coverage.
