policy analysis
...e sector which decreases the load on the public sector. Acceptability Health, health care and essential drugs are basic human rights that must be accessible to all. Health care should be allocated on the basis of need and it should be equitable and fair to all.Disregarding equity is socially destabilizing. Jeopardizing the health of the poor will have spill-over effects for everyone in the society and will damage loing term productivity. In this sense the EHP is designred in such a way that health care will reach the whole of the society as much as possible. The police has dececntralization strategies in order to give health services in the kebele level.eventhough the inefficient activities mentioned above are partly the effects of the decentralization policy it is in principle accepted by the society. The HEP also has strategist for expanding the activities and performances of the private health sector and NGOs involved in healthcare delivery. With this respect the society will have an alternative health care service. It is not yet saturated to reach the whole community and the once that are there are quite expensive for the poor, but there are quite a significant number of changes in the private health sector in number and capacity since the MOH adopted the EHP. Eventually with time the increase in competition the society will benefit more from reduced prices and advanced services. The HEP is more or less acceptable by the society and stakeholders, but there should be clearly formulated guidelines and standards of how these goals could be reached by involving the community and the stakeholders in the revision and formulation of the different strategies, guides, programs, etc. Enforceability The MOH uses different instruments to enforce the policies which are related to health. These are task forces in the regional health bureaus to administer and control the activities of the health centers; proclamations by the government; institutional rules and regulations; health posts and private clinics; the Drug Administration and Control Authority (DACA) which issues standards and guidelines fo...