Review of the health sector - Papua New Guinea
In Papua New Guinea, a health economist from Health Partners International participated in the third and final part of a review of the health sector to examine the reasons for recent poor performance.
Our consultant helped to facilitate discussions on future directions of health services and share international lessons from Sector-Wide Approaches during seminars held with senior health managers.
The review identified a number of key constraints, including:
- problems associated with decentralisation
- human resources issues
- problems with other resources such as finances and equipment.
Proposals for future reforms of the health sector were developed.