The Global Health System: Lessons for a Stronger Institutional Framework

The Global Health System: Lessons for a Stronger Institutional Framework

1 Sustainability Science Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 4 Global Health Initiative, Boston Un...

the proposed framework for monitoring health system

governance and leadership are seen as the most important function in the realization and promotion of community health. this two components through legislation must identify present situation, determine the desirable situation, provide infrastructures and implementation mechanisms and in accordance with stated policies and planning, they should apply necessary monitoring and control. in this re...

Stronger national public health institutes for global health.

Although strengthening health-care systems is receiving increased attention, strengthening public health systems and institutions could save far more lives at lower cost. Public health institutes monitor, implement, and oversee programmes to prevent disease. Life-saving and cost-saving programmes include immunisations, control of communicable diseases including diarrhoeal disease, reduction of ...

Priority Setting on the Path to UHC: Time for Stronger Institutions and Stronger Health Systems: Response to Recent Commentaries

Prospects for global health: lessons from tuberculosis.

Preventable diseases continue to afflict billions of people worldwide in both rich and poor countries. With regard to tuberculosis (TB), much has been learned over the past century about Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the responsible infectious agent, and its medical treatment and cure. TB is, however, an old disease currently making a resurgence at the global level. An estimated one third of t...