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Closing the Health Gap: Lessons from Africa

In: Learning from the World

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  • Prabhjot Singh

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In the United States, keeping 300 million Americans connected to healthcare is amongst the nation’s most pressing challenges. Front and center is the debate over reforms to America’s hospital-centered health system; however, American hospitals cannot alone address pragmatic concerns driving healthcare reform. Because of the size and diversity of America’s population, our health system requires a full-time network of community health workers (CHWs) who can lead the way in developing innovative, low-cost, community-focused approaches. Without a close-to-client network of CHWs, America will continue to struggle to accomplish the triple aim of higher-quality care, lower cost, and better health outcomes. As a nation, we must create space to engage in local system design in order to learn how to integrate transformative components, such as CHWs, to connect a fragmented health system and reconnect it to the communities it serves.

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  • Prabhjot Singh, 2014. "Closing the Health Gap: Lessons from Africa," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Joe Colombano & Aniket Shah (ed.), Learning from the World, chapter 13, pages 185-197, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-37213-0_13
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137372130_13
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