Quantifying the Relationships Between Health Sector Strategic Planning Practices and Health Sector Results in Tanzania: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Our study provides additional evidence to the ongoing debate on the relationships between strategic planning practices and strategic results in the health sector and the public sector. Overall, our evidence suggests that only the HSSP implementation and HSSP monitoring and evaluation practices are significantly and positively related to strategic health sector results. We recommend that the council health managers continue to engage in the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation practices to enhance their chances of achieving the strategic results set out in the health sector strategic plans. We encourage future studies using longitudinal study design, objective and in other settings.