Strengthening systems and scholarship for global health — and public health
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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...
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Health systems, particularly those in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), need stronger management and leadership capacities. Management and leadership are not synonymous, yet should be considered together as there can be too much of one and not enough of the other. In complex adaptive health systems, the multiple interactions and relationships between people and elements of the system me...
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Knowing and applying the basic management functions of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling, as well as their permutations and combinations, are vital to effective delivery of public health services. Presently, graduate programs that prepare public health professionals neither emphasize teaching management theory, nor its application. This deficit puts those who become man...
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Public health training and education have existed for over a century,1 yet there is little systematic evidence on whether current approaches prepare graduates to improve health by developing, evaluating and implementing effective and equityoriented public health programmes. There are three reasons to document and debate this topic worldwide and disproportionately focus on lowand middle-income c...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Public Health
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0008-4263,1920-7476
DOI: 10.17269/cjph.107.5986