Context sensitivity: provides guidance for context-sensitive and context-specific enquiry through flexible elements of enquiry, and engagement of country-level key informants Flexibility: allows for the deeper description of context-specific pathways of reform and explanations of failures, through micro-case studies utilizing qualitative methods Systems thinking: promoting the conception of PHC systems as a composite of variably interlinked elements, including structural elements (governance, financing, service organization) Learning emphasis: integrates different forms of learning for policy Complementarity: builds on current advances and efforts |