DIALHS briefing notes now available online

The District Innovation and Action Learning for Health Systems Development (DIALHS) have published a series of briefing notes emerging from work in the Mitchell’s Plain sub-district over the past six years.

DIALHS is a collaborative project of Health Policy and Systems and Health Economics Divisions of the UCT School of Public Health and Family Medicine, the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape, the City of Cape Town and Western Cape Department of Health. The project is funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies.

The DIALHS learning site is a RESYST-related project using the same research approach as the other learning sites in Sedibeng, South Africa and Kilifi, Kenya. RESYST researchers are working in all three learning sites.

DIALHS resources

• Knowledge co-production through service-research partnerships: Lessons from the Mitchells Plain sub-district, South Africa

• Complexity and challenges of managing the sub-district health system

• Leadership of sensemaking for primary healthcare changes: Lessons from the Mitchells Plain sub-district, South Africa

• Does identity shape leadership and management practice? Experiences of PHC facility managers in Cape Town, South Africa

• Managing absenteeism: decisions made and information used

• The importance of relationships for strengthening health system governance at implementation level

• Re-imagining community participation in primary health care: Lessons from the Mitchells Plain sub-district, South Africa

RESYST resources on Learning Sites

• Policy brief: Health systems learning sites: Understanding health systems through research collaboration and engagement

• Key findings sheet: What is everyday health system resilience and how might it be nurtured?

• Policy brief: Recentralisation within decentralisation? Improving the functioning of Kenyan hospitals through increased hospital autonomy

• Policy brief: Crisis and resilience at the frontline: Coping strategies of Kenyan primary health care managers in a context of devolution and uncertainty

• Podcast and infographic: What is a health system learning site?

• Journal publication: Significance of informal (on-the-job) learning and leadership development in health systems: lessons from a district finance team in South Africa

• Journal publication: Hospitals as complex adaptive systems: A case study of factors influencing priority setting practices at the hospital level in Kenya

• Journal publication: The influence of power and actor relations on priority setting and resource allocation practices at the hospital level in Kenya: a case study

• Journal publication: Setting healthcare priorities: a description and evaluation of the budgeting and planning process in county hospitals in Kenya