Includes bibliographical references. Dorotan, E. G., & Mogyorosy, Z. (2005). Making your local health system work: a resource book on the local health system development. Germany: German Agency for Technical Cooperation.

Part I: Understanding the health system -- Chapter 1: Health systems in perspective -- Chapter 2: Defining the local health system -- Chapter 3: Analyzing the local health system for action -- Chapter 4: Decentralizing the delivery of health services -- Part II: Improving your local health system -- Chapter 5: Knowing your clients and stakeholders -- Chapter 6: Developing a sustainable benefit package -- Chapter 7: Organizing the provision of quality health care -- Chapter 8: Financing local health care -- Chapter 9: Selling the reforms -- Chapter 10: Summing up and the challenge ahead -- Part III: Useful information

"This resource book, entitled Making your local health system work, is a potent tool for all health workers at the national and local levels to work hand in and in working out effective, efficient and empowering health delivery systems at the local level. The resource book offers theoretical as well as practical ways of localizing health system development based on need, capacity and performance of key stakeholders in the locality. It is a future-oriented resource book that motivates new thinking, innovations and creativeness in responding to the complex problem of delivering appropriate care to our people, specially the poor. It combines the disciplines of medical science, economics, behavioral and social sciences, marketing and politics in forming strategic interventions in our health care delivery system." - From the Book