Conclusion
The key policy recommendations listed above are
highly related to each other. They all have implications
for the sustainability of the health system and
for making policy decisions given constraints on fiscal
capacity. A key component of improving health system
performance with limited resources is the ability
to make policy choices on allocating resources in
areas where they can be most effective in improving
health and equity in health. Increasing investment
in one area to realize benefits will mean reducing
spending in another area where it is not as effective.
Although improvements in efficiency and the cost of
delivering services will help, it is critical to develop
the policy decision-making capacity to address reallocation
of resources in order to achieve health gains for
the population as a whole and for subgroups.