Private initiatives for primary healthcare (PHR)

This study provides baseline information on current allocations of Kenya's Ministry of Health (MOH) resources to preventive and primary health care (P/PHC). In addition, the study provides a means of monitoring shifts to close the P/PHC resource gaps in the MOH recurrent budget. A computer program developed by the study will enable the MOH to monitor the financial resources allocated to P/PHC in the recurrent budget and to determine the levels of funding directed toward P/PHC in the Forward Estimates. It will be difficult to determine from MOH budgets exactly how resources are being allocated, since actual expenditures within budget items cannot be tracked. It is unlikely that the proportions used to determine resource allocation in the monitoring program will remain constant as the needs of facilities change. Consequently, the study proposes that the resource utilization survey be repeated on a smaller scale every two years or so. This will allow actual measurement of resource allocations at the facility level. Since the survey has already been developed, it can be implemented by Kenyan consultants and the MOH at minimal cost. The results of this survey are used in a planning

Source: DEC abstract, PN-ABH-099 (1990). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.