Access to Quality Health Services

Challenges

Reducing the health status gap between the rich and the poor is one of the major challenges of our times. This gap relates greatly to the access of the poor to quality health services, whether in financial, geographical or other terms.

Countries need to address existing inequalities through substantial reforms. Improving the allocation of public resources and making public finance management more efficient often is a good starting point. Additional and new approaches to financing health services need to be developed, including the development of social health insurance systems.

The health sector faces other challenges as well, e.g. the shortage of health workers in remote areas, and the high burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases. New challenges arise from the ever growing possibilities in medical care and people’s rising health needs.


GFA Approach

GFA’s mission is to provide access to quality health services for the poor. In this respect, we assist our clients in formulating and implementing their related policies and strategic change processes.
Our approach is to ensure our clients full ownership of all measures concerned. We assist in developing the technical capacities of national personnel so they may integrate projects into national programs furnished with corresponding budgets.
GFA consultants work as project managers and technical advisors. We accompany multi-year and complex health reform processes. In addition to day-to-day project coordination, all our in-house staff carry out technical consulting assignments. Over the years, this has helped our experts gaining solid, hands-on, and up-to-date experience in project management and implementation.

The GFA teams provide services related to

  • health systems development,
  • health financing,
  • reproductive health, 
  • AIDS,
  • disease control, 
  • medical equipment, incl. maintenance.

Regular internal evaluations, continued education and training certify that our experts are up-to-date with scientific developments, so they will offer our clients best practices and the services needed.