National Health Costing Study Training

MOHSW in collaboration with CSSC conducted one week training on National Health Costing Study which was held Dar-Es-salaam at GIZ conference room at National Insurance Investment House from 25^th to 29^th July 2011.  The trainees were from: CSSC, MOHSW, and NIHF. Moreover, the training was facilitated by OPM (Oxford Policy Management) team. The study is financed by two organizations namely: GIZ and USAID.

The objective of the study is to provide MOHSW with cost information on RCH, Communicable and non- Communicable diseases.  Thus, MOHSW is expected to use the data to:

      To develop realistic estimates for over-all costs for prices setting on health sector

      Financial planning on medical care: short term, medium and long term

      Improve management of health facilities in terms of pricing/ cost sharing schedules

Stakeholders involved in the Costing study:

There are many stakeholders involved in this exercise.  They are basically categorized into three main groups: The financing agents in this case are GIZ and USAID. Those involved in health care include: MOHSW, NHIF, CSSC, APHFTA, NSSF/ SHIB.  The technical Consultants are OPM and Abt Associates inc.

In terms of roles: CSSC is responsible for the pre-test of the instruments, Pilot test, and conduct the collection in 154 health facilities in 5 zones covering all regions of Tanzania Mainland. On the other hand, OPM was engaged on developing the Instruments, Training the team from CSSC, MOHSW, NIHF and APHFTA. It will also carry out the analysis of the data after data collection from all five zones.  Moreover, Abt Associates Inc. will be responsible for quality control of the instruments during the study.

Coverage:

The study will be done in five clusters:  Cluster 1-Shinyanga, Cluster 2-Mbeya, Cluster 3- Iringa, Cluster 4-Kilimanjaro and Cluster 5- Dar- Es-salaam cluster,covering  27 Districts with a total of 154 health facilities both Public, FBO and Private.  Additionally, CSSC is taking the Lead for the data collection, whereby Mr. Runge is the Project Manager and Ms. Mecky Isasi is the Project Coordinator.

See the Photo of the participant during training Proceeding: