Learning health systems: pathways to progress

HOW YOU CAN USE THIS RESOURCE: This resource is valuable for health policymakers, program managers, researchers, and development partners focused on health systems strengthening. It offers practical frameworks for institutionalizing learning at individual, team, organizational, and cross-organizational levels, highlighting how to enhance learning through information, deliberation, and action to improve health system performance.

OVERVIEW: This report emphasizes the critical role of learning in health systems strengthening, particularly in LMICs, where limited capacity to generate and use knowledge often hinders health improvements. It outlines different levels of learning—individual, team, organizational—and types of learning loops (single, double, and triple) that contribute to more adaptive, innovative, and self-reliant health systems, while providing strategies for institutionalizing learning and optimizing human capacities to drive progress.

Publishing organization: World Health Organization Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research