Strengthening health systems to meet MDGs

Strengthening health systems to meet MDGs.

The UNDP report on the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs (UNDP 2005), cautions that the Goals will not be met by 2015 in the most needy countries, and, in fact, warns that the situation in Africa may actually worsen. What can be done to secure some measure of success in the health-MDGs effort? Should strengthening health systems be regarded a ‘first-order’ goal within ‘higher-order’ MDGs to...

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

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 ...

Strengthening Health Systems to Provide Rehabilitation Services

demographic trends: populations are ageing, and the number of people living with noncommunicable diseases and the consequences of injuries is increasing [1–3]. The health, social and economic consequences of these trends should serve as a call to policy-makers to invest not only in health services that reduce mortality and morbidity, but also in those that improve functioning and consequently w...

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...