Defining and Integrating Essential NCD Interventions in National Health Systems

Background

Funded by Norad from January 2022 until December 2025, this project focuses on defining essential NCD (non-communicable disease) packages and service delivery.

Under the leadership of professors Ole F. Norheim and Kjell Arne Johansson, BCEPS aims to support partners through the WHO-led DECIDE network, improviding technical assistance, decision support and capacity strengthening for defining essential NCD UHC (universal health coverage) packages for Tanzania, Nepal, Ghana, and Africa CDC. Through its partner, the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Delivery at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, led by Gene Bukhman, the project also develops recommendations for integrated delivery of priority interventions in selected countries.

Goal

The goal of the project is to improve efficiency, equity, and financial risk protection from essential NCD packages in selected countries. The impact on health adjusted life expectancy (HALE) at birth, burden of disease, equity indexes for access and health outcome indicators, out of pocket (OOP) expenditure and proportion of catastrophic health expenditure will be measured in the project and supplemented with data from IHME, WHO and World Bank UHC/SDG indictors.

Expected Outcomes

• Outcome 1: Defined and proposed essential NCD UHC packages in Tanzania, Nepal, Ghana and for Africa CDC (BCEPS)
• Outcome 2: Trained national experts in health economics and priority setting. A selected number of PhD candidates and Master’s students will be recruited from the selected countries and receive their diploma from UiB, after which they will be employed and placed in health economics unit in their home country (BCEPS).
• Outcome 3: Recommendations for integrated delivery of priority interventions in Tanzania, Nepal, Ghana, and Ethiopia.