Improving immunization coverage and equity - technical resources
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| Resource | Policy coherence as a driver of health equity |
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| Purpose | To outline approaches to address inequity through the systematic promotion of mutually reinforcing policies across government departments to create synergies towards achieving agreed objectives and to avoid or minimize negative spill-overs in other policy areas. |
| Content | (a) Defines Policy Coherence for Health Equity. (b) Explains how health actors can promote policy coherence. (c) Measuring policy coherence. (d) Indicators for policy coherence. (e)Annexes with examples and guide for assessments. |
| Expected outcomes | •Use of the guide should promote the following: (a) Coherence across all areas of public policy to realize health equity. (b) Increased use of the SDGs to provide a framework to strengthen policy. (c) Establishment of governance mechanisms for policy coherence that enables action for health equity to operate across a decision-making system. (d) Inclusion of equity analysis in inter-sectoral initiatives. (e) Development of a health equity approach in all health-related departments. |
| Strengths | Outlines a clear conceptual framework for Health Equity in All Policies (HEiAP) through application of 5 main governance concepts of transparency, accountability, participation, integrity and capacity of the system for development of policy coherence for health equity. |
| Contraints/Limitations | Understanding health equity impact requires epidemiological, sociological and econometric expertise; understanding political feasibility and durability requires administrative, legal, political and political science expertise. |
| Why use it | To identify policy initiatives and policy-making procedures that can reduce health inequities, or diagnostically, to identify policies that are not coherent with an approach to government that tries to reduce health inequities. |
| Who should use it | Policy makers and managers from all sectors who have the intent to reduce health inequities. |
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| Link to access the resource | /en/component/content/article/policy-coherence-as-a-driver-of-health-equity?catid=660&Itemid=101 |