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AN OUTCOMES FRAMEWORK FOR GLOBAL HEALTH, 2011-2015

Sunday, 28th of August 2011

AN OUTCOMES FRAMEWORK FOR GLOBAL HEALTH, 2011-2015

This  British government document, full text at http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/dh_125671.pdf

moves from process evaluation to outcomes evaluation. Surely this is a step forward. It is easy to say ‘we have distributed a million bednets.’ It is more challenging, but more meaningful, to say ‘we have prevented x cases of malaria.’

From the framework document:

‘The ten guiding principles are that we will:

 

1. Promote health equity within and between countries through our foreign and

domestic policies, particularly through action on the social determinants of

health.

2. Promote outcomes on global health that support the achievement of the

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the MDGs Call for Action.

3. Protect the health of the UK proactively, by tackling health challenges that

begin outside our borders.

4. Learn from other countries’ policies and experience in order to improve the

health and well-being of the UK population and the way we deliver healthcare.

5. Base our global health policies and practice on sound evidence, especially

public health evidence, and work with others to develop evidence where it

does not exist.

6. Set out to do no harm and, as far as feasible, evaluate the impact of our

domestic and foreign policies on global health to ensure that our intention is

fulfilled.

7. Work for strong and effective leadership on global health through

strengthened and reformed international institutions such as the World Health

Organisation (WHO).

8. Work in partnership with other governments, multilateral agencies, civil

society and business in pursuit of our objectives.

9. Ensure that the effects of foreign and domestic policies on global health are

much more explicit and that we are transparent about where the objectives of

different policies may conflict.

10. Use health as an agent for good in foreign policy, recognising that improving

the health of the world’s population can make a strong contribution towards

promoting a low-carbon, high-growth global economy.’

Comment in The Lancet,

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)60552-7/fulltext