Features Fixing Health Systems Linking research, development, systems, and partnership to reduce mortality. TEHIP News A newsletter of the IDRC/MOH Tanzania Essential Health Intervention Project DESIGNING AND CONDUCTING HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH PROJECTS: VOLUME 2 Data Analyses and Report Writing Corlien M. Varkevisser, Indra Pathmanathan, and Ann Brownlee FORGING LINKS FOR HEALTH RESEARCH Perspectives from the Council on Health Research for Development NET GAIN A New Method for Preventing Malaria Deaths POPULATION AND HEALTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Population, Health, and Survival at INDEPTH Sites INDEPTH Network The TEHIP ‘Spark’: Planning and Managing Health Resources at the District Level A case study by IDRC’s Evaluation Unit details how TEHIP has influenced public policy and decision-making in Tanzania’s health sector. The study also illustrates some of the challenges associated with sustaining the project’s achievements. Making Plans for Success — The Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Project 2003-10-30 Fewer children are dying in Morogoro District in Tanzania  — the result of significant improvements in local health care. Morogoro is one of two districts that are the testing ground for the ...

The Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Project (TEHIP) is a research and development partnership involving Tanzania's Ministry of Health and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC). TEHIP was established to test innovations in planning, priority setting, and resource allocation at the district level, in the context of the reform and decentralization of Tanzania's health care system.

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Infant mortality rates drop again 2004-04-28

The latest statistics show that the mortality of children under the age of five has dropped by 43% in Morogoro District between 1997 and 2003 and by 46% in Rufiji District between 2000 and 2003.  These impressive gains come in the two districts where TEHIP has helped to improve local health care planning.

Making Plans for Success — The Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Project 2003-10-30
Fewer children are dying in Morogoro District in Tanzania  — the result of significant improvements in local health care. Morogoro is one of two districts that are the testing ground for the Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Project (TEHIP). This research and development partnership between the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Tanzania Ministry of Health has been piloting innovations in health planning, priority setting, and resource allocation. As the successful project comes to an end, the Tanzanian government is now taking steps to apply TEHIP’s lessons to the rest of the country.

TEHIP highlighted in The Economist 2002-09-25

Vital Statistics 2002-11-14
Collecting data in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya can be a dangerous job. Household enumerators who work with the African Population and Health Research Center’s (APHRC) demographic surveillance system (DSS) regularly risk being mugged and robbed by pickpockets. Yet they persist, for the information they gather is vital to efforts to improve the health of these poor communities.