Essential drug availability

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Essential drug availability

Essential drug availability measures the number of unexpired drugs in a health facility compared to the total expected number of drugs on the list defined by the World Health Organization. To effectively provide essential health services, facilities must have available a minimum level of essential drugs.

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Data Source Notes

The specific list of drugs facilities are assessed against varies depending on the data source. We chose to include values from SARA and SPA facility assessments where available, recognizing that there are slight definitional differences.

Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA). SARA is a health facility assessment tool designed to assess and monitor the service availability and readiness of the health sector and to generate evidence to support the planning and managing of a health system. SARA is designed as a systematic survey to generate a set of tracer indicators of service availability and readiness. Click here to learn more about what is included in SARA surveys. Read more here. 

Service Provision Assessment (SPA). SPA is a survey is a health facility assessment that provides a comprehensive overview of a country’s health service delivery. It collects information on the overall availability of different facility-based health services in a country and their readiness to provide those services. Click here to learn more about what is included in SPA surveys. Read more here.

The list of essential drugs is derived from the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines.

 

Notes

The PHCPI Core Indicators rely on third party data. To learn more about our data, please review our methodology note, or e-mail us at info@improvingPHC.org.