Health Sector Strategic Development Plan 2012-2016.

The present Health Sector strategic Development Plan document provides a summarized description of key current challenges based on the situational analysis that formed the basis for the strategic direction. Building on the general strategic direction, the Plan presents background and problem analysis, objectives, strategies, expected outputs/outcomes, key indicators of each of the specific priority and cross cutting interventions of the Basic Health Care Package (BHCP), which is essential and support of health systems, as well as for the sector governance, sector planning, monitoring and evaluation and health care financing and management that guide and support the implementation of the Basic Health Care Package.
The Vision postulates an improved health status, well-being, productivity and quality of life of the Eritrean people with an enabling and empowering environment for the provision of sustainable quality of health care that is effective, efficient, acceptable, accessible and, affordable to all citizens. Its Mission is to provide quality promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health care services to the Eritrean people, in order to maintain and improve the quality of life of all citizens of Eritrea by promoting and protecting their physical, mental, and social health and well-being. The following are the strategic objectives of the health sector: 1) Significantly reduce the burden of early childhood illness and improve maternal and child health; 2) Prevent, control and manage communicable diseases with the aim of reducing them to a non-public health problem; 3) Prevent, control and manage non-communicable diseases; 4) Strengthen cross cutting health interventions.
Part B of chapter 6 deals with health management and information system. Its objective is: 1) to set up a well-functioning Health Information Service office with defined authority, roles, responsibilities and functions for designing , development and support of integrated data management and dissemination of official information; 2) To provide accurate, relevant, complete, and timely health information for decision makers, implementers and other data users; 3) To enhance availability and accessibility to quality information and information technology; 4) To strengthen data collection, analysis, dissemination and utilization at all levels; 4) To support health service planning, implementations, supervision, monitoring, evaluation and decision making at all levels.
The text consists of 7 chapters as follows: Introduction (1); Governance and strategic directions of the health system (2); Basic health care package (3); Hospital, emergency and integrated essential medical care (4); BHCP essential systems (5); Sector planning, monitoring and evaluation (6); Health care financing and funding (7). One Annex is enclosed listing related laws, health policies and guidelines.