The Mutual Learning for Mixed Health Systems platform supports and encourages experimental learning processes to build consensus on socially desirable, equity-led policies and actions for the management of change in pluralist health systems.
The platform is a growing partnership, so far involving the Public Health Foundation of India; Amref Health Africa; Centre for Research on Transformations at the School of Economics and Business, National University of San Martín, Argentina; Innovision Consulting, Bangladesh; Centre for Sustainable Health Innovations, Singapore; the Udugu Institute, Zimbabwe; and the Institute for Development Studies (IDS).
In pursuit of equitable health outcomes for all, rather than the improvement of health services for the few, the platform’s learning approach to the management of change in health systems promotes inclusion and iteration.
- Inclusion: recognising the need for all health systems stakeholders to participate whilst recognising differences between them in terms of their knowledge and perspectives, their economic interest, and their relative power.
- Iteration: Fostering ongoing, reflexive learning to underpin effective adaptation and continuous improvement.
The platform helps to strengthen the capacities of governments and other stakeholders to influence the development and performance of digital health services to ensure they fulfil their promise, while guarding against possible problems.
In addition, the platform generates evidence and stimulates new thinking on innovative ways to incorporate newtechnologies into strategies for improving health service performance.
In June 2023, the Mutual Learning for Mixed Health Systems platform published its report: ‘Towards Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage’. The report is an outcome of consultations with over 300 senior government officials, leaders of private companies, technology innovators and health system analysts working in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The aim of the process was to get a clear picture of the contribution (if any) that the private sector has been making to the achievement of national efforts to increase access to equitable and effective health services, particularly through digital innovations, and to identify promising strategies for governing mixed health systems.
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