Directorate General of Planning
The Directorate General of Planning (DGP) is one of the main pillars of the Ministry of Health (MOH) and it is affiliated to the Secretariat of Planning Affairs. In fact the DGP is considered as the cornerstone of the MOH in issues pertinent to the strategic planning of the health care delivery and services provision. It encompasses several directorate and sections that deal with planning; research, surveys and studies; health information and statistics; in addition to the complementary role of monitoring, follow-up and evaluation. All these culminates in shaping and supporting the decision making process. The vital role played by the Directorate General necessitates the establishment of a designated Center for Research and Studies to generate and provide solid-based evidences for better informed decision as well as to support the delivery of quality health care. The DGP is committed to advancement of work in the health field through its planning directorates which are present in all governorates of the Sultanate of Oman. All planning directorates at governorate level have well qualified, dedicated and committed health personnel working in partnership and collaboration with the other directorates and sections of the Directorate General of Health Affairs. They work in the spirit of teamwork and provide valuable support, advice, insights and information to assist in the provision of the highest quality health services inspired by the motivation, deep faith and firm belief of the importance of working together to achieve the desired results and reach the common goals. The significant role played by the Directorate General of Planning as well as its strengths much depend on the collective efforts of all the staff, which is undoubtedly has be reflected in nature of the activities performed and supervised by the Directorate General for instance: - The Health Vision 2050 - The Health Atlas - The guideline for the preparation of the10th five-year health development plan 2021 – 2025 - The 10th five-year health development plan 2021 – 2025 - The monitoring and evaluation guideline for the 10th five-year health development plan 2021 – 2025 - Health research guideline - Financing of research guideline - The overall supervision and guidance of the development of the 10th five-year health development plan 2021 – 2025 including the training on result-based management and planning. It is worth mentioning that the new organizational structure of the Directorate General of Planning included some departments and sections to keep pace and momentum with future needs and new dimensions of the health system. In addition, the direct affiliation of the planning directorates at governorate level to DGP will add more strength for easy and better communication, saving time, immediate follow-up; and quick actions that will enhance the performance as well as improve the quality and efficiency of the work and results without compromising the principle of true cooperation and partnership with all Directorate Generals of Health Affairs at governorate level to achieve the desired MOH goals.
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Births & Deaths Notification Facts
Births & Deaths Notification Facts
BIRTH & DEATH NOTIFICATION FACTS is published annually from Information and statistics Directorate, extracted from Births & Deaths Notification System. These facts includes the main indicators based on that NOTIFICATION, which reflecting the population estimation and biostatistics indicators.
Read MoreAnnual Health Report
Annual Health Report
Annual health report published annually from Directorate General of Planning & Studies- Department of Information & Statistics, contains comprehensive statistics and indicators about demographic situation, distribution and utilization of health services, human resources, and morbidity and mortality indicators.
Read MoreView Health Indicators in the form of geographical maps
Health Facts
Health Facts
Health facts are published annually from Directorate General of Planning & Studies- Department of Information & Statistics. It summarizes the main Health indicators Of Sultanate of Oman among last three year, containing biostatistics indicators, Manpower, utilization of health services and Health expenditures.
Read MoreMonitoring and Evaluation of the five year health plan
Monitoring and Evaluation of the five year health plan
Forms used to monitor the progress of the five year plan health domains
Read MoreResearch Proposal Form
Research Proposal Form
The research protocol (Form) that should be submit by the researcher, is a detailed description of your proposed study designed to investigate a given problem. It is intended to convince others that your re-search project is worthwhile, that you have the competency to execute and a solid work plan to complete the project. This form should fill by the researcher and then submit to research committee to re-view and approve it before starting the study.
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Annual Health Report 2022
Annual Health Report is an annual project issued by the Directorate General of Planning on a regular basis and is considered one of the most important issues that have importance to decision makers in the Ministry of Health and also references upon which the National Center for Statistics and Information and the Supreme Council for Planning and also other relevant government agencies. the report contains 10 chapters, which displays the most important data on the use of health services, manpower, education and training, expenses, projects, and data inpatients institutions of the Ministry of Health, data and other government health institutions and private sector institutions, as well as containing the supplement presents some survey data Studies conducted in the Ministry of Health and displays the millennium development goals.
Synopsis of Strategic (Volume I)
Synopsis of Strategic Studies associated with the future vision of the health system 2050, this edition focus and 24 strategic study which were accompanied in vision for 2050, a number of working papers of this strategy include analyzing information's and studies that necessary for all health workers and decision makers. The first volume focus on eight studies which are the most important includes:- Human resources for health - primary health care - health care quality –non communicable diseases - health promotion - nutrition – elderly care medical technology.
Document of Health vision 2050
Document of Health vision 2050: - is to try to imagine how we would like to be the health system in the Sultanate of Oman in the future up to the year 2050, where the details political analysis, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal conducted a foundation of five-year plans the next Health Development The document includes eleven chapters:- Demographic characteristics of the Sultanate of Oman's, political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal health - and the health system in the Sultanate of Oman healthy. Situation in Oman -leadership and governance- Financing of the health system in the Sultanate of Oman health – human resources for health system(HRH), in -Products and medical technology in the Sultanate of Oman –information and health research and partnership between sectors in the Sultanate of Oman.
Tenth Five Year Plan Plan for Health Development 2021-2025
Continuation of the approach adopted by the Ministry of Health in the area of strategic planning, which in turn leads to the achievement of the goals and objectives set and defined in line with the results tandem and achievements successive 'Directorate-General of Planning has at the end of the first half of 2014 to work on the preparation of the general methodology and integrated five-year plan for development tenth of health (2021-2025), adopted from(Health 2050) so as to ensure that going for future five-year plans and health sync with the vision and strategic direction set out in the vision, as it should be noted that the ministry of health plan is the first step of the access road to the vision of the future of the health system in 2050.
The health system vision (Health 2050) - Executive Summary document
This Issue includes extensive analysis of the current situation of the health system in the Sultanate of Oman in terms of mortality and morbidity among the population, the challenges facing the health system and future developments and expected population changes, including the social and economic changes and includes Abstracts of: - demographic characteristics and projections political - economic situation -social technological -legal- environmental health status of the community include: - mortality rates and life expectancy at birth - fertility rates Child-health-health mother - infectious diseases or communicable - non-communicable diseases, in addition to brief health system characteristics and that will guide the development of health visions divided according to the six pillars of the health system.
Health Atlas Document-Volume one
Issuing includes expectations and future projections for the population and the needs of the health services, and medical and uses those services and human resources for health at the national level is divided at the provincial level it has been displayed on maps by geographic health information system, which describes the evolution of those needs over the coming years until 2050. It will be covered by visions and information used in the 2050 vision, and the accompanying Strategic Studies and Health Atlas as a basis for building and directing the next five-year plans for health development.
Updating the national health policies and strategies
The Unit of Policies and Health Systems within the Directorate General of Planning has distributed forms to all Directorates General at central level inquiring about the status quo of the existing as well as proposed national health policies and strategies in order to identify the policy gaps and how to be addressed within the 9th five-year Health Development Plan 2016 - 2020. Following a rapid analysis of situation, there it turned out the importance of having a guideline on how to develop national health policies and strategies in order to raise awareness and strengthen the capacity of the concerned health professionals to develop and update the policies and strategies. The Unit in collaboration with the Unit of Knowledge Translation (the Center for Research and Studies) developed the first draft of the guideline. Participants from four Directorates General at central level were selected and series of training workshops were held to build their technical capacities. The series of training workshop will expand to cover the remaining Directorates General at central level as well as the Directorates General of Health Services in the governorates within the time frame of the 9th five-year Health Development Plan 2016 - 2020
Health Atlas Document-Volume two
This work is ongoing.
Annual Health Report 2023
This work is ongoing.
Health Project in the Sultanate of Oman in 2040
This work is ongoing.
Project of Establishment of an electronic program to follow up the five-year plan in cooperation with the Directorate General of Information Technology.
This work is ongoing.
Modernization Project of Health Polices and Strategies
This work is ongoing.
Project to establish the National System of Health Accounts
This work is ongoing.
Project of Human Resources Development in Directorate General of Planning
This work is ongoing.
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Ongoing Projects
Annual Health Report 2022
Annual Health Report is an annual project issued by the Directorate General of Planning on a regular basis and is considered one of the most important issues that have importance to decision makers in the Ministry of Health and also references upon which the National Center for Statistics and Information and the Supreme Council for Planning and also other relevant government agencies. the report contains 10 chapters, which displays the most important data on the use of health services, manpower, education and training, expenses, projects, and data inpatients institutions of the Ministry of Health, data and other government health institutions and private sector institutions, as well as containing the supplement presents some survey data Studies conducted in the Ministry of Health and displays the millennium development goals.
Synopsis of Strategic (Volume I)
Synopsis of Strategic Studies associated with the future vision of the health system 2050, this edition focus and 24 strategic study which were accompanied in vision for 2050, a number of working papers of this strategy include analyzing information's and studies that necessary for all health workers and decision makers. The first volume focus on eight studies which are the most important includes:- Human resources for health - primary health care - health care quality –non communicable diseases - health promotion - nutrition – elderly care medical technology.
Document of Health vision 2050
Document of Health vision 2050: - is to try to imagine how we would like to be the health system in the Sultanate of Oman in the future up to the year 2050, where the details political analysis, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal conducted a foundation of five-year plans the next Health Development The document includes eleven chapters:- Demographic characteristics of the Sultanate of Oman's, political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal health - and the health system in the Sultanate of Oman healthy. Situation in Oman -leadership and governance- Financing of the health system in the Sultanate of Oman health – human resources for health system(HRH), in -Products and medical technology in the Sultanate of Oman –information and health research and partnership between sectors in the Sultanate of Oman.
Tenth Five Year Plan Plan for Health Development 2021-2025
Continuation of the approach adopted by the Ministry of Health in the area of strategic planning, which in turn leads to the achievement of the goals and objectives set and defined in line with the results tandem and achievements successive 'Directorate-General of Planning has at the end of the first half of 2014 to work on the preparation of the general methodology and integrated five-year plan for development tenth of health (2021-2025), adopted from(Health 2050) so as to ensure that going for future five-year plans and health sync with the vision and strategic direction set out in the vision, as it should be noted that the ministry of health plan is the first step of the access road to the vision of the future of the health system in 2050.
The health system vision (Health 2050) - Executive Summary document
This Issue includes extensive analysis of the current situation of the health system in the Sultanate of Oman in terms of mortality and morbidity among the population, the challenges facing the health system and future developments and expected population changes, including the social and economic changes and includes Abstracts of: - demographic characteristics and projections political - economic situation -social technological -legal- environmental health status of the community include: - mortality rates and life expectancy at birth - fertility rates Child-health-health mother - infectious diseases or communicable - non-communicable diseases, in addition to brief health system characteristics and that will guide the development of health visions divided according to the six pillars of the health system.
Health Atlas Document-Volume one
Issuing includes expectations and future projections for the population and the needs of the health services, and medical and uses those services and human resources for health at the national level is divided at the provincial level it has been displayed on maps by geographic health information system, which describes the evolution of those needs over the coming years until 2050. It will be covered by visions and information used in the 2050 vision, and the accompanying Strategic Studies and Health Atlas as a basis for building and directing the next five-year plans for health development.
Future Projects
Updating the national health policies and strategies
The Unit of Policies and Health Systems within the Directorate General of Planning has distributed forms to all Directorates General at central level inquiring about the status quo of the existing as well as proposed national health policies and strategies in order to identify the policy gaps and how to be addressed within the 9th five-year Health Development Plan 2016 - 2020. Following a rapid analysis of situation, there it turned out the importance of having a guideline on how to develop national health policies and strategies in order to raise awareness and strengthen the capacity of the concerned health professionals to develop and update the policies and strategies. The Unit in collaboration with the Unit of Knowledge Translation (the Center for Research and Studies) developed the first draft of the guideline. Participants from four Directorates General at central level were selected and series of training workshops were held to build their technical capacities. The series of training workshop will expand to cover the remaining Directorates General at central level as well as the Directorates General of Health Services in the governorates within the time frame of the 9th five-year Health Development Plan 2016 - 2020
Health Atlas Document-Volume two
This work is ongoing.
Annual Health Report 2023
This work is ongoing.
Health Project in the Sultanate of Oman in 2040
This work is ongoing.
Project of Establishment of an electronic program to follow up the five-year plan in cooperation with the Directorate General of Information Technology.
This work is ongoing.
Modernization Project of Health Polices and Strategies
This work is ongoing.
Project to establish the National System of Health Accounts
This work is ongoing.
Project of Human Resources Development in Directorate General of Planning
This work is ongoing.
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Births & Deaths Notification Facts
Births & Deaths Notification Facts
BIRTH & DEATH NOTIFICATION FACTS is published annually from Information and statistics Directorate, extracted from Births & Deaths Notification System. These facts includes the main indicators based on that NOTIFICATION, which reflecting the population estimation and biostatistics indicators.
Read MoreAnnual Health Report
Annual Health Report
Annual health report published annually from Directorate General of Planning & Studies- Department of Information & Statistics, contains comprehensive statistics and indicators about demographic situation, distribution and utilization of health services, human resources, and morbidity and mortality indicators.
Read MoreView Health Indicators in the form of geographical maps
Health Facts
Health Facts
Health facts are published annually from Directorate General of Planning & Studies- Department of Information & Statistics. It summarizes the main Health indicators Of Sultanate of Oman among last three year, containing biostatistics indicators, Manpower, utilization of health services and Health expenditures.
Read MoreMonitoring and Evaluation of the five year health plan
Monitoring and Evaluation of the five year health plan
Forms used to monitor the progress of the five year plan health domains
Read MoreResearch Proposal Form
Research Proposal Form
The research protocol (Form) that should be submit by the researcher, is a detailed description of your proposed study designed to investigate a given problem. It is intended to convince others that your re-search project is worthwhile, that you have the competency to execute and a solid work plan to complete the project. This form should fill by the researcher and then submit to research committee to re-view and approve it before starting the study.
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Health Vision 2050
"Health Vision 2050" is an attempt to visualize how we would like our health system to be in future until the year 2050. Predicting the future of health care delivery can be fraught with uncertainty and risk, especially with the number of determinants that affect health care: demographic, political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal. Health Vision 2050 describes the vision for health system development over the coming 40 Years. It provides a review of the current health system in Oman as the basis for the development of a long-term health vision for 2050. The aim of Health Vision 2050 is for the Omani people to live healthy and productive lives, through the establishment of a well-organized, grounded by societal values of equity and social justice.
Synopsis of Strategic Studies,, Health Vision 2050
The current volume compiles synopsis of 8 strategic studies; namely “Human Resources for Health”, “Primary Health Care”, “Health Care Quality”, “Non-Communicable Diseases”, “Health Promotion”, “Nutrition”, “Elderly Health Care” and “Medical Technology” . The information and analysis contained theses strategic studies are intended to complement the “Health Vision 2050” main document and the “Health Atlas” and will act as resource studies for developing the coming Five-Year Health Development Plans
Health Atlas
The Health Atlas is a scientific instrument developed from “Health Vision 2050” to provide health planners and decision makers with various studies and scientific data that are accessible when executing the long-term health vision plan. The Health Atlas also shows the number of healthcare institutes in the various Governorates of Oman and provides an estimate of the number of needed workforce or human resources required to match the developmental pace of the health of the country to compare favorably with those in developed countries. The Atlas also provides a glimpse into some of the major medical equipment needed to provide advanced and state-of-the-art health care.
Ninth Five Year Plan
“Health Vision 2050” is developed to visualize how the health system in Oman would look like in the future and until the year 2050. Predicting the future of health care delivery can be fraught with uncertainty and risk. It was, thus, necessary to analyze extensively the status of the Omani health system, the morbidity and mortality in the population, the challenges facing the health system and the expected future developments and changes in the population including macro-social and macro-economic changes. Extensive efforts were made to analyze the status of the health system and the surrounding circumstance in which the health system functions. Ministries and organizations related to health including the Parliament and State Council prepared working papers and a number of national workshops were conducted to discuss and describe views on the current and probable future determinants of health outcomes. “Health Vision 2050”, the working papers and the strategic studies include enormous information and analysis of health status and health system as well as actions for future improvements in health status and enhancing performance of health system.
Policy and Strategy Development Guideline with Health Lens
There is an increasing national and global awareness of the need to complement any care service with effective public policies and strategies. The Directorate General of Planning and Studies developed this user-friendly policy and strategy development guideline to help managers to use modern, hands on methods, tools and techniques needed to increase the institutional effectiveness and efficiency through systems-wide improvement that can be sustained. This guideline provides self-directed learning covering the major issues in policy and strategy development. It is aimed for the planners and managers at various levels of any system who wish to improve their skills in navigating, developing and managing the policies and strategies. The planners and managers wish to understand how issue get onto policy agendas, how policy makers treat evidence and why some policy initiatives are implemented while other failed. The guideline describes a systematic stepwise approach to develop policies and strategies and simplifies the tasks according to the nature and context of the theme. I encourage the users of this guideline to be vigilant and receptive to adapt it according to their settings and circumstances.
National Reproductive Health Survey 2008 • Knowledge and attitude towards congenital anomalies and genetic disorders Survey
This publication of this report on Reproductive Health of Omani Women and Knowledge and Attitudes of Omanis towards Genetic Disorders and Congenital Anomalies. These two surveys were specific to Oman and were conducted along with to the World Health Survey conducted in the Sultanate of Oman in the year 2008. The survey on Reproductive Health of Omani Women rightly aimed to describe and define the Fertility patterns, Family planning use and unmet needs, Knowledge and Attitude of IUD use, maternal health care in the ever married Omani females from 15 to 49 years. Besides this, it studied the Child health and mortality issue. The survey findings reflect that despite the overall good health state of women and children in Oman, still there are many gaps such as low use of birth spacing methods particularly modern methods and increasing use of traditional methods, high unmet needs of FP for spacing/limiting, low KAP for IUD, relatively high fertility rates. There is also lack of awareness/counseling of complication of pregnancy. The prevalence rates of common child illness as fever, cough/pneumonia and gastroenteritis are comparatively high and coupled with very low optimum fluid and feeding practices for these childhood illness as reported by the mothers.
National Elderly Health Survey
This report was published on the reproductive health of Omani women and the knowledge and attitudes of Omanis towards genetic disorders and congenital malformations. These two issues were specific to the Sultanate of Oman and were conducted in conjunction with the World Health Survey conducted in Oman in 2008. The Omani women's reproductive health survey aims to describe and determine fertility patterns, use of family planning and unmet needs, knowledge and trends in needle use, and health care for single mothers aged 15 to 49 years. He also studied child health and mortality. The results of the survey show that despite the overall good health status of women and children in Oman, there are still many gaps, such as reduced use of spacing methods, in particular modern methods and increased use of traditional methods, high unmet needs for FP / IUD, relatively high fertility rates. There is also a lack of awareness / counseling of pregnancy complications. The prevalence of common childhood diseases such as fever, cough / pneumonia and gastroenteritis is relatively high, along with highly optimal fluids and feeding practices for childhood disease, as reported by mothers.
Facts and figures about Uniserial Health Coverage in the Sultanate of Oman
Uniserial Health Coverage (UHC) is defined WHO that all individuals and communities receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship. It includes the full spectrum of essential, quality health services, from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care.
The third issue of the periodical electronic magazine (Info Plan)
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