Strengthening Intersectoral Collaboration for Primary Health Care in Developing Countries: Can the Health Sector Play Broader Roles?

Box 1

Key recommendations for the health sector.

Key Recommendations

 (i)     Mobilise the political class and principal

officers of relevant sectors through education

and advocacies

 (ii)    Routinely propose PHC-related infrastructures

for budgetary implementation by the relevant

“nonhealth” sectors

 (iii)   Mobilise for funds to support implementation

of nonhealth projects

 (iv)    Engage in collective actions to demand for

infrastructural development for health improvement

 (v)     Provide technical guidance to aid agencies on

best approaches to intersectoral collaboration

 (vi)   Collaborate with the manufacturing sector

towards the transfer of needed technology

 (vii)  Provide systemic support for intersectoral

collaboration

 (viii) Initiate intersectoral studies and pilot projects

to guide the development of best practices and suitable

models