Policy Brief: Key Recommendations for Effective Modalities for Urban Primary Health Care Systems in Bangladesh
BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health and ARK Foundation have mapped the stakeholders across policy makers, urban health experts, health care providers from public and private sectors in Dhaka and Khulna metropolitan cities, and held a series of workshops to share experiences and reflect on ways to improve current modalities of the existing primary health care system.
The teams have developed a policy brief to summarise key recommendations coming out of the stakeholder workshops.
Key Recommendations
- Strategic purchasing came out as the priority for alleviating issues of high patient out of pocket expenditure
- Reforms to primary healthcare delivery in urban contexts need to accommodate the needs of informal workers and marginalised
- Regulating the private service providers and creating a well maintained supply chain will improve accountability and government ownership
Regulating the pharmacies and the private service providers, creating a well-maintained supply chain and central health information system, and incorporating feedback mechanisms, will enable better accountability and ownership by both the government and the civil society of the urban health system. These action points are needed to bring the urban population under a primary healthcare system and to build resilience to the health system, in preparedness of future shocks.
Read the full Policy Brief here: Key Recommendations for Effective Modalities for Urban Primary Health Care Systems in Bangladesh