Health systems benchmarking tool (HSBT) user manual

The feature of clustering creates comparable groups of countries sharing similar socio-economic and demographic characteristics. The tool comprises of 140 countries and more than 100 health systems indicators, country socio-economic and demographic contextual data. It focuses on three USAID Global Health priority initiatives by including relevant indicators on Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths (EPCMD), AIDS Free Generation (AFG), and Protecting Communities from Infectious Disease (PCID). The tool also provides an option to specifically benchmark EPCMD countries using health system outcomes and impact indicators. The Health System Benchmarking Tool was conceptualized by the USAID Office of Health Systems. The Health Financing and Governance project developed the Excel software and is responsible for the data used in the tool from different international sources.