During the 2024–2025 biennium, Honduras made structural progress in transforming its health system through a primary health care (PHC) approach, by consolidating strategic frameworks, strengthening integrated health services networks, and organizing a priority agenda informed by key assessments. 

PAHO made a decisive contribution by supporting the Secretariat of Health in the formulation, alignment, and technical coherence of strategic documents, providing evidence, standards, and an operational sequencing that linked policies with the model of care. PAHO promoted the implementation of PHC based integrated health services networks through an operational governance approach and coordinated collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank for specialized technical assistance, ensuring the timely availability of technical capacities. In addition, it coordinated the application of the essential public health functions and the interprofessional health teams tool in priority regions, ensuring methodological rigor and the practical use of results for decision-making. 

Technical analysis integrating services, human resources, and financing—linked to health system preparedness—made it possible to guide investments and strengthen stewardship. Taken together, these advances lay a solid foundation for expanding access to comprehensive, high quality services, reducing fragmentation, and enhancing the resolutive capacity of the first level of care, thereby contributing to sustainable health outcomes.

Photo caption: A call to action to measure the essential public health functions
Credit: PAHO - Carlos Florian