HLSP runs projects throughout the developing
world
Developing countries
HLSP’s work emphasises the importance of translating pro-poor
policies and strategies into effective practice. We have particular
experience of utilising approaches whereby funding is pooled and
allocated according to agreed strategies and plans. At
country-level, HLSP is involved in practical issues of health,
poverty reduction and economic growth; in evidence-based pro-poor
policy and strategy; in improving service delivery through
management and performance strengthening; in integrating
disease-specific interventions into decentralisation efforts; in
sponsoring and regulating the private sector; and in strengthening
financial planning.
Developed countries
Across Europe and OECD countries, governments are faced
with:
- rising costs of healthcare services
- aging populations
- increasing societal expectations and
- the need to balance the mix of public and private services
Whether a government spends 8% or 14% of its GDP on health, and
whether it uses tax based systems or third party social insurance
systems, health planners and policy specialists are continuing to
search for solutions to these generic issues.
HLSP provides technical assistance to these policy conundrums in
the form of public health and needs assessments, economic
modelling, cost benefit analysis and applied research. Speciality
areas include the utilisation of Geographical Information Systems
to aid the policy process and our extensive experience in Private
Finance Initiatives (PFI) / Private Partnership Programmes (PPP)
work.
