Toward a Consensus on Guiding Principles for Health Systems Strengthening

Toward a Consensus on Guiding Principles for Health Systems Strengthening

1 Department of Health Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America, 2 The QED Group LLC, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 3 Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, 4 Division of Global Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 5 Health Systems Action Network, New Delhi, India, 6 Ministry of Health, Accra, Gh...

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

Driving toward guiding principles: a goal for privacy, confidentiality, and security of health information.

As health care moves from paper to electronic data collection, providing easier access and dissemination of health information, the development of guiding privacy, confidentiality, and security principles is necessary to help balance the protection of patients' privacy interests against appropriate information access. A comparative review and analysis was done, based on a compilation of privacy...