Abstract

GUERREIRO, Cátia Sá; HARTZ, Zulmira; FERRINHO, Paulo  and  HAVIK, Philip J.. 25 Years of national health policy in the Republic of Guinea-Bissau: Memories of its strategic health planning. Cadernos de Estudos Africanos [online]. 2019, n.38, pp.239-264.  Epub June 12, 2021. ISSN 1645-3794.

The Republic of Guinea-Bissau (RGB), a fragile state marked by a context of political and institutional instability, has since 1993 carried out the Strategic Planning for the Health Sector (SPHS). Sectoral strategic documents - National Plans of Sanitary Development (NPSD) - demonstrate a capacity for resistance to governmental adversities. This longitudinal policy review has a double purpose, namely to analyse the SPHS processes and to guard these memories to allow an understanding of the trajectories in question. This paper concludes that the SPHS mainly responded to the requirements of funding institutions, and it has not always been implemented. The NPSD III (2018-2022) aims to reverse this situation by implementing a strategy which aims to integrate the different health actors.

Keywords : health policy; strategic health planning; National Health Development Plan; Republic of Guinea-Bissau.

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