http://www.who.int/healthsystems/en/index.html A growing number of WHO member states and the world’s political and international health leaders recognize the urgent need to make a major, sustained commitment to strengthening health systems. This renewed political interest presents the important opportunity needed to make sustainable improvements that benefit across disease areas and health programmes, and redouble global efforts … Continue reading
Global action on health systems: a proposal for the Toyako G8 summit Michael R Reich, Keizo Takemi, Marc J Roberts, William C Hsiao Lancet 2008; 371: 865–69 http://www.jcie.org/japan/j/pdf/gt/cgh-jc/lancetarticle080308.pdf “Global efforts to improve health conditions in poor countries have embraced two different strategies in recent decades, one focusing on health systems, the other on … Continue reading