Fourth Health Project: Improving Equity and Quality of Care

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The Fourth Health, Iproving Equity and Quality of Care, Project will improve health outcomes by giving provinces, districts and puskemas managers greater responsibility, authority, resources, and skills to enhance health care quality and equity. The project will specifically: (i) increase the authority and capacity of provincial and district health offices and health centers to plan and implement health programs as they deem appropriate to local conditions; (ii) to ensure that the provision and consumption of key health services conform to affordable, cost-effective standards of care; (iii) to improve access to utilization of these health services by the poor; and (iv) to improve efficiency in the delivery of basic health services (BHS).