Costing of Essential Health Services in Kenya
Start Date:
March 2007
End Date:
February 2009
Country:
Kenya
Client:
Government of Kenya
Funder:
GTZ
Project Information
Kenya has embarked on an ambitious programme of health financing reform. OPM has been asked to carry out a costing study of the Kenya Essential Package of Health (KEPH). Health services not included in the KEPH are equally costed albeit in lesser detail. In a first stage a costing model has been designed based on the health financing policy objectives of the Ministry of Health. Extensive meetings with national and international stakeholders in the Kenyan health sector have equally shaped the model features and have ensured widespread buy-in and support for the process. Particular attention has also been paid to maximise the interface between the model and the HMIS, allowing for easy future update of some model components.
The data needed to populate the prototype costing model have subsequently been defined. Primary data collection involving about 250 health facilities throughout the country is presently underway. Future work will involve using the outputs of the finalised costing model in other aspects of the Kenyan health finance architecture.