Cross-cutting Health Systems Strengthening (Other Health)

Promote sustainable improvements in health outcomes by reducing key health systems constraints to achieve the goals and objectives of multiple health elements and the health area overall.

Activities coded here aim to promote financial protection, efficiency, and affordability of health services in general; ensure the quality or availability of an essential package of prevention, promotion, treatment and care services; enhance equitable access to priority services by under-served, marginalized and other high priority groups; and ensure responsiveness to people's expectations.

Such activities strengthen the core health systems functions/building blocks (leadership and governance; finance; human resources for health; medicines, vaccines and technology; and service delivery).

Note 1: Operating Units should report activities that address specific element goals under other elements, reserving the use of this cross-cutting health systems strengthening element for overarching activities that are supported with multiple health element funding.

Note 2: Operating units should report activities that strengthen the information function of the health system under the Host Country Strategic Information Systems element.