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Chapter Four

Objectives, Targets, and Strategic Directions


This overall objective entails strengthening the health system to ensure that people live longer, healthier
lives by reducing the causes of premature deaths, including maternal and childhood health conditions,
unhealthy lifestyles, and accidents; expanding access to high-quality health care for all; and ameliorating
the effects of social determinants of health. It focuses on enabling all people to have a long life and a
good quality of life. The four pillars for improving the population health status are Accelerate progress

towards universal health coverage, Protect people from health emergencies, Woreda transformation &
Improve health system responsiveness.

HSTP-II targets are set by considering baseline, previous trends, burden of disease, national and
international standards, efficacy of technologies, anticipated availability of resources, and other
concerns, using the One Health tool and wider consultation with experts the performance of HSTP-II will
be measured against different targets: The strategic plan for HSTP-II identifies 14 strategic directions.

Major strategic initiatives in Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health is to Provide quality and equitable
antenatal, labor, delivery, and postnatal care services, mainly through introduction of at least one
ultrasound service for all pregnant women before 24 weeks of gestation The health system will focus
also on high-impact interventions aimed at reducing the burden of communicable diseases & in
addition to implementation of appropriate interventions to prevent and control neglected tropical

diseases in Ethiopia. Hygiene and Environmental Health focuses on addressing environmental


determinants of health and thereby promoting health, preventing diseases and other conditions, and
improving the quality of health services. Equity reduces disparities between geographic areas and
groups with underlying social advantage/disadvantage (women, youth, children, the uneducated, the
poor, and people with disabilities) in provision of quality health service. This principle focuses on
ensuring that all Ethiopians, no matter their geography, gender, age, wealth, education or disability
status, are able attain the same. HSTP-II is committed to working across different dimensions of health
equity in Ethiopia: Access to and uptake of health care & Difference in health status (or outcomes)

PRIORITIES/TRANSFORMATIONAGENDAS OF HSTP-II from the 14 strategic directions, the health sector


has identified the top key priorities or health sector transformation agendas based on the major
challenges identified in the situational analysis. Accordingly, these are the priorities/ focus areas of
HSTP-II. Quality and equity, Information Revolution, Motivated, Competent and Compassionate (MCC)
health workforce, Health financing& Leadership

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