Strengthening Health Systems; the Basis for Controlling Corona Virus Pandemics

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...

Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health

Despite a renewed focus in the field of global health on strengthening health systems, inadequate attention has been directed to a key ingredient of high-performing health systems: management. We aimed to develop the argument that management – defined here as the process of achieving predetermined objectives through human, financial, and technical resources – is a cross-cutting function necessa...

Health Management Mentoring for Health Systems Strengthening: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Arguing the case for strengthening health systems.

Q: How has WHO's approach to strengthening health systems changed? A: We surveyed our stakeholders in WHO departments, the regions and governments early on. This showed us where we should be headed and reflected a reaction to the direction under the previous leadership. They wanted WHO's Evidence and Information for Policy cluster to address the need for measurement , financing or human resourc...

Strengthening district health systems.

It is increasingly recognized that stronger health systems are needed to deliver health care interventions at the scale necessary to achieve and sustain healthrelated Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially in Africa (1, 2). This is evident in the growing willingness of two of the largest global health initiatives, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Global ...