Yemen National Health Strategy 2010-2025.

The Yemen National Health Strategy 2010-2025 is a sectoral policy with a mission to ensure the provision of sustainable, quality and distinguished preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitation health services satisfying the beneficiaries and service providers together and are sensitive towards equal distribution of resources and accessibility through a health system that supports taking the proper decisions based on evidence to upgrade the performance of the national health system at various levels consistent with the national policies, strategies and regulations.
Better public health is considered a key prerequisite for comprehensive national development. To this end, the values embedded in the policy are: Equal distribution of resources and provision of human rights-based health services and ensuring that every individual can indiscriminately obtain them; Constant quality improvement to ensure people's satisfaction of health services; Making sure that the community is actively involved in the health decision-taking and estimating the needs of health services; Financial efficiency through the optimal utilization of resources, costs containment and sustainability of health funding;Decentralized decision taking and health services provision; Participation, cooperation and coordination between the sectors and emphasizing that the health development goals cannot be realized with the sole efforts of the health sector but rather through the collaborative efforts of all development partners; Prevalence of the one team spirit and open dialogue to transparently and objectively discuss the health issues; Commitment to the goals of the national strategy and regional and international obligations and protocols such as Almata (1978), Millinium Development Goals, Doha Declaration on primary health care (2008) and Yemen's commitments to the GCC countries.
Eight major areas of intervention are included in the Strategy. 1. Governance and leadership that will be focused on developing effective and good mechanisms to direct and run the health system. 2. Healthcare services- working towards ensuring the provision of preventive, treatment and rehabilitation healthcare and increasing the coverage of the primary health services. Education on nutrition and early detection of diseases will be amongst the front line services of health programs. 3. Manpower (staff) focused on improving quality of health services and beneficiaries' satisfaction by improving the management and organization of human resources. 4. Health planning focused on developing methodologies for planning and health investment in services, labor force, technology, and infrastructure. 5. Health Information System working towards ensuring accuracy and utilization of the health information flow to assist in informed decision-making. 6. Infrastructure- focused on improving the health system infrastructure and health facilities based on equitable criteria and in accordance with the needs of the local communities. 7. Medicine and health technology- focuses on provision of effective, safe and quality drugs to the people. 8. Health funding and health insurance options focuses on balance in allocation of resources among the various levels of health system, the rural and urban areas and the preventive and treatment services in order to further approach the regional standards in governmental health expenditure, ensure that the health funding sufficiently responds to the health programs and plans based on the actual needs of the population and ensure fair distribution to achieve efficiency, effectiveness and connection between expenditures and revenues for health development.
Regarding governance, the Ministry of Public Health and Population is responsible for the strategy’s coordination and implementation. Further, the strategy will be annually revised to check the sustainability of objective attainment in light of the likely changes. The Ministry will institutionalize this process within the regular planning processes in MOPHP in a practical and applicable method. An executive annual work plan will be made to be compatible with NHS defining the priorities of the Ministry over the coming year based on the strategic tendencies.