HSR Resources & Funding

This Reader aims to provide a basis of understanding, ideas and experience to strengthen the quality of HPSR – including a collection of high quality papers that demonstrate the application of different HPSR strategies and methods.

Edited by Lucy Gilson of the University of Cape Town and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, this publication provides guidance on the defining features of HPSR and the critical steps in conducting research in this field. It showcases the diverse range of research strategies and methods encompassed by HPSR.

The target audience for the Reader includes researchers, teachers and students, as well as those working within health systems, and particularly those working in low-and middle-income countries.
 

Shared service practices involve the integration of service activities across various areas of an organization, or across different organizations, into a single entity. The main purpose of shared services is to improve efficiencies and help manage costs. A shared service can be defined as “the concentration or consolidation of functions, activities, services or resources into one stand-alone unit. The one unit then becomes the provider…to several other client units within the organization.”1