BACKGROUND Governance, which includes decision-making at all levels of the health system, and information have been identified as key, interacting levers of health system strengthening. However there is an extensive literature detailing the challenges of supporting health managers to use formal information from health information systems (HISs) in their decision-making. While health information...

This work presents a proposal for integrating Context Providers to the LARIISA a project that makes use of intelligent systems for helping decision-making in the area of public health governance. The context providers gather information about concerned communities and will allow the implementation of ontologies reflecting different levels of public health governance (e.g. state-wide, locality-w...

"Clinical governance" is the term used to describe a systematic approach to maintaining and improving the quality of patient care within a health system. This article introduces the concept of clinical governance as a tool for improving the quality of care. It also discusses the potential value of a large database of colic surgery in implementing some of the components of clinical governance in...

Background and Aim: Public health expenditures and the quality of governance are among factors affecting the health status of a population. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the interaction effects of good governance and public health expenditures on the health status of children in upper-middle income countries. Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytical applied ...

BACKGROUND Good governance may result in strengthened performance of a health system. Coherent policies are essential for good health system governance. The overall aim of this research is to provide the best available scientific evidence on principles of good policy related leadership and governance of health related rehabilitation services in less resourced settings. This research was also co...

This paper argues that discussion of new food-safety governance should be framed by the realization that the dominant food system within which food-safety governance is designed to makes food safe is itself a structural and systemic sources of food un-safety, poor health and a future of food insecurity for many. For some, an appropriate policy response lies in addressing the connections between...

Drawing on an in-depth analysis of eight global health networks, a recent essay in this journal argued that global health networks face four challenges to their effectiveness: problem definition, positioning, coalition-building, and governance. While sharing the argument of the essay concerned, in this commentary, we argue that these analytical concepts can be used to explicate a concept that h...

The paper by Bernal-Sundiang et al.1 in this issue of Acta Medica Philippina provides one the more extensive and in-depth empirical discussion governance health sector. Utilizing data collected over a one-year period as part Philippine Primary Care Studies urban, rural, remote settings, authors reported on challenges their team encountered project implementation it relates to leadership governa...

This study examines the use of, and results from, the National Public Health Performance Standards Program Local Governance Instrument. It includes a compilation and analysis of 173 local governance instruments completed by local boards of health from 2003 to 2006. Only 24 of the 173 scored instruments are used because of exclusion of data from New Jersey. The study compares results from the in...

there were once again high expectations that a major global health event - the ebola virus outbreak of 2014-2015 - would trigger meaningfully world health organization (who) reform and strengthen global health governance (ghg). rather than a “turning point,” however, the global community has gone back to business as usual. this has occurred against a backdrop of worldwide political turmoil, cha...