Reflections on the use of the World Health Organization's (WHO) OneHealth Tool: Implications for health planning in low and middle income countries (LMICs).

ABSTRACT: The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the OneHealth Tool (OHT) to help low and middle income countries to develop their capacities for sector-wide priority setting. In 2016, we sought to use the OHT to aid the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC), the national health insurer of the Philippines, in decisions to expand benefit packages using cost-effectiveness analyses. With technical support from the WHO, we convened health planning officers from the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) and the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC) conduct generalized cost-effective analyses (GCEA) of selected un-financed noncommunicable disease interventions using OHT. We collected epidemiological and cost data through health facility surveys, review of literature such as cost li

SUBMITTER: Wong JQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5832917 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature