TY - BOOK ID - 136725562 TI - Health Service Delivery in Tanzania PY - 2015 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Anemia KW - Burden of Disease KW - Children KW - Dehydration KW - Diabetes KW - Diarrhea KW - Disease Control & Prevention KW - Doctors KW - Financial Management KW - Health KW - Health Insurance KW - Health Monitoring & Evaluation KW - Health Professionals KW - Health System Performance KW - Health Systems Development & Reform KW - Health, Nutrition and Population KW - Hepatitis KW - Hospitals KW - Human Development KW - Human Resources KW - Incentives KW - Insurance KW - Internet KW - Knowledge KW - Latrines KW - Malaria KW - Measles KW - Measurement KW - Morbidity KW - Mortality KW - Nurses KW - Pneumonia KW - Polio KW - Population KW - Posters KW - Poverty KW - Public Health KW - Sterilization KW - Tetanus KW - Treatment KW - Tuberculosis KW - Vaccines KW - Waste KW - Weight KW - Workers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136725562 AB - The Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs) provides a set of key indicators serving as a benchmark for service delivery performance in the health and education sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa. The overarching objective of the SDIs is to ascertain the quality of service delivery in primary education and basic health services. This would in turn enable governments and service providers alike to identify gaps and bottlenecks, as well as track progress over time, and across countries. The SDI survey interviewed 403 heath providers across Tanzania between May 2014 and July 2014. This technical report presents the findings from the implementation of the SDI in the health sector in Tanzania in 2014. Survey implementation activities took place following extensive consultations with the government and key stakeholders on survey design, sampling, and adaptation of survey instruments. A major challenge for Tanzania's health sector is the shortage of skilled human resources for health (HRH). This survey found that provider knowledge and abilities were not adequate to deliver quality services. Caseload per provider and absenteeism are relatively low, so the issue is not over burdened providers. There seems to be ample room for a significant increase in the caseload of Tanzanian providers, id est the level of productivity in health service delivery, without jeopardizing quality. In addition to increasing the volume of skilled HRH to address the shortage of providers, improvements in management, supervision and training is important to improving service delivery. Health for all in Tanzania will mean the simultaneous availability of widely accessible inputs and skilled providers. ER -