HiTs

The Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles are health system reviews systematically describe and assess the core components of a health system: organization and governance, financing, physical and human resources, service provision, and health reforms.

HiTs are produced by a team of country experts in collaboration with an external editor and under the guidance of the APO secretariat. HiTs use a standardized template that is also used by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, which enables comparison between countries and across regions.

HiTs are re-written every three to five years, and to capture significant changes in the interim, updates on specific parts of the HiTs will be produced as necessary, enabling comparisons across time.

Latest HiTs

(Source: Cecil Lee)

• Malaysia (2013)
  
  Impressive population-wide health gains with a low-cost health care system may be undermined by health workforce shortages.

• Mongolia (2013)
  
  The HiT highlights key gains and challenges as the health system evolves from the Soviet era Semaskho model.

(Source: Thom Watson)

• Philippines (2012)
  
  Implementation of health system reforms has been challenged by the fragmentation of services.

(Source: Robert Prather)

• Fiji (2011)
  
  Health system and policies must adapt to cope with increasing burden of noncommunicable diseases.