Building a Workforce for Future Health Systems: Reflections from Health Policy and Systems Research

BRIC Health Systems and Big Pharma: A Challenge for Health Policy and Management

BRIC nations – Brazil, Russia, India, and China – represent 40% of the world’s population, including a growing aging population and middle class with an increasing prevalence of chronic disease. Their healthcare systems increasingly rely on prescription drugs, but they differ from most other healthcare systems because healthcare expenditures in BRIC nations have exhibited the highest revenue gr...

Health policy and systems research: building momentum and community

Editorials 851 In October 2014, nearly 2000 people from 125 countries shared and debated issues that are critical to improving the performance of health systems, at the 1 Such research was barely visible on the global health agenda until 1996, when the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Ad Hoc Committee on Health Research identified health systems research as an important but neglected field. ...

Health Research Policy and Systems

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Putting Management Capacity Building at the Forefront of Health Systems Strengthening; Comment on “Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health”

The current limited focus on management in global health activities is highly problematic given the amounts of financial and human resources that are pouring into health system strengthening interventions and the complexity of clinical operations across settings. By ensuring that public health and healthcare practitioners in domestic and international settings receive management training in the...

Building the Future Environmental Health Workforce.