Health Management Mentoring for Health Systems Strengthening: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Abstract

We would like to thank Lapão 1 and Schwarcz et al 2 for their thoughtful additions related to our article “Implementation of a health management mentoring program: Year-1 evaluation of its impact on health system strengthening in Zambézia Province, Mozambique,” 3 and for sharing their practical lessons and insights into the state of health system strengthening activities. In our article, we described a health management mentoring strategy and suggested results in district health system functioning after its first year of implementation.

Keywords

• Health System Strengthening
• Capacity Building
• Mentoring
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• HIV Programs
• Health Metrics