MONITORING THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF HEALTH SYSTEMS: A HANDBOOK OF INDICATORS AND THEIR MEASUREMENT STRATEGIES

The document is a handbook that describes a set of indicators and their measurement strategies for the six buildings blocks of health care systems. It discusses each building block separately according to a common format, with the medical products, vaccines and technologies building block focusing specifically on access to essential medicines. For each component or building block, the handbook identifies a parsimonious set of indicators and related measurement strategies. This handbook does not address the measurement strategies and indicators across the entire results chain of the common monitoring and evaluation framework. Rather, it focuses on systems