Harmonized Health Facility Assessment introduction
The Harmonized Health Facility Assessment (HHFA) is a comprehensive health facility survey assessing the availability of health facility services and the capacities of facilities to deliver quality services. This course introduces the HHFA purpose, content, and methods, as well as the WHO resources available to support countries in conducting high quality HHFAs.
The HHFA Comprehensive guide is the key reference document for this course.
The HHFA is a comprehensive health facility survey that provides countries with objective information on how well their health facility service delivery system is working. The HHFA covers all key facility services, programmes and management systems, assessing the availability of services and the capacities of facilities to deliver services at required standards of quality.
What you’ll learn
Explain what the HHFA is and how it is conducted
Draw a diagram of the HHFA modules and their contents
Outline the kind of information an HHFA can and cannot provide
Provide examples of HHFA indicators
Explain why a country should conduct an HHFA
List the key steps involved in conducting an HHFA
List the HHFA tools, guidance documents and training packages
Describe how to access the HHFA indicator inventory platform
Explain the different types of HHFA questionnaires
Describe the HHFA CSPro tool
Summarize the functions of the HHFA data analysis platform.
Course contents
Course introduction:
A brief introduction to this course on the HHFA.
Module 1: Introduction :
This module will provide an overview of the HHFA.
Module 2: Why should a country conduct an HHFA?:
This module will discuss why a country should conduct an HFFA.
Module 3: HHFA resource package:
This module introduces the resources that can be used to support the various stages of an HHFA.
Assessment:
There are 15 questions in this quiz-based assessment. The questions are a recap of the content covered in Modules 1 to 3. You must score 80% to pass.
Resources:
This section links to resources with more information on the HHFA.