Table 1. CRS categories under which health ODA is reported and definitions.
Definition | ||
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1. General health | ||
Health policy and administrative management | Health sector policy, planning and programmes; aid to health ministries, public health administration; institution capacity-building and advice; medical insurance programmes; unspecified health activities | |
Medical education/training | Medical education and training for tertiary-level services | |
Medical research | General medical research (excluding basic health research) | |
Medical services | Laboratories, specialized clinics and hospitals (including equipment and supplies); ambulances; dental services; mental health care; medical rehabilitation; control of non-infectious diseases; drug and substance abuse control (excluding narcotics traffic control) | |
Basic health | ||
Basic health care | Basic and primary health-care programmes; paramedical and nursing care programmes; supply of drugs, medicines and vaccines related to basic health care | |
Basic health infrastructure | District-level hospitals, clinics and dispensaries and related medical equipment; excluding specialized hospitals and clinics | |
Basic nutrition | Direct feeding programmes (maternal feeding, breastfeeding and weaning foods, child feeding, school feeding); determination of micro-nutrient deficiencies; provision of vitamin A, iodine, iron etc.; monitoring of nutritional status; nutrition and food hygiene education; household food security | |
Infectious disease control | Immunization; prevention and control of malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal diseases, vector-borne diseases (e.g. river blindness and guinea worm), etc. | |
Health education | Information, education and training of the population for improving health knowledge and practices; public health and awareness campaigns | |
Health personnel development | Training of health staff for basic health-care services | |
2. Population policies/programmes and reproductive health | ||
Population policy and administrative management | Population/development policies; census work, vital registration; migration data; demographic research/analysis; reproductive health research; unspecified population activities | |
Reproductive health care | Promotion of reproductive health; prenatal and postnatal care including delivery; prevention and treatment of infertility; prevention and management of consequences of abortion; safe motherhood activities | |
Family planning | Family planning services including counselling; information, education and communication activities; delivery of contraceptives; capacity-building and training | |
STD control including HIV/AIDS | All activities related to sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS control e.g. information, education and communication; testing; prevention; treatment, care | |
Personnel development for population and reproductive health | Education and training of health staff for population and reproductive health-care services |
CRS, Creditor Reporting System; ODA, official development assistance; STDs, sexually-transmitted disease. Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.9