A key part of the Institute's training efforts is its involvement in the Asia Network for Capacity Building in Health Systems Strengthening (ANHSS), which brings together nine regional institutions and World Bank Institute in a joint collaboration to deliver training courses and knowledge products to strengthen regional capacity in health systems. Within ANHSS, the Institute is responsible for managing the Health Equity Cluster, which is tasked with delivering training courses and knowledge products related to health equity. For this, the Institute is able to draw on the expertise of the wider Equitap network. The first course from the Health Equity Cluster was delivered in The Philippines in 2010, and further courses are planned in coming years.
Examples of training programmes and events organised by the Institute are given below.
ANHSS Flagship Course on Equity and Health Systems
Tagaytay, Phillipines, 2010
This was the first course delivered by the ANHSS Health Equity Cluster. IHP was responsible for managing the course development and delivery. A team of international experts delivered a one-week course focused on sharing and building the knowledge of participants in the concepts of health systems equity, the indicators used to track equity, and the potential tools and interventions available to improve health systems equity outcomes.
NHA Training
WHO Bangladesh NHA Training,
August - September, 2013
A five-day training workshop on health accounts reporting for members of the Bangladesh National Health Accounting (BNHA) Cell was held from 16-20 September 2013 in Colombo. Main themes covered included an introduction to NHA and System of Health Accounts (SHA) frameworks and classification systems, design and execution of private hospital insurance and donor surveys and data coding and analysis using excel and STATA programs. A special session on tracking expenditure by type of disease was also conducted.
Malaysia MOH NHA Training Course,
February 2010 - December 2012
The Institute organized this customized training course for four staff from the NHA Unit of Malaysia MOH. IHP staff from its Health Expenditure Unit provided training in how to develop, improve and finalise national health accounts data. The training covered use of STATA, production of SHA tabulations, mapping processes and other areas relating to national and international classifications. This course was designed with the Malaysian National Health Accounts in mind, and also considered country specific issues.
