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Global Health Actors Claim To Support Health System Strengthening—Is This Reality or Rhetoric?

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  • Bruno Marchal
  • Anna Cavalli
  • Guy Kegels

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Bruno Marchal and colleagues argue that most current strategies aimed at health systems strengthening remain selectively targeted at specific diseases.

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  • Bruno Marchal & Anna Cavalli & Guy Kegels, 2009. "Global Health Actors Claim To Support Health System Strengthening—Is This Reality or Rhetoric?," PLOS Medicine, Public Library of Science, vol. 6(4), pages 1-5, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pmed00:1000059
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000059
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    1. Fabiana da Cunha Saddi & Stephen Peckham & Gerald Bloom & Nick Turnbull & Vera Schattan Coelho & Jean-Louis Denis, 2023. "Employing the policy capacity framework for health system strengthening," Policy and Society, Darryl S. Jarvis and M. Ramesh, vol. 42(1), pages 1-13.
    2. Peter Amico & Christian Aran & Carlos Avila, 2010. "HIV Spending as a Share of Total Health Expenditure: An Analysis of Regional Variation in a Multi-Country Study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 5(9), pages 1-8, September.
    3. Maria Paola Bertone & Natasha Palmer & Krista Kruja & Sophie Witter & HSSEC Working Group 1, 2023. "How do we design and evaluate health system strengthening? Collaborative development of a set of health system process goals," International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(2), pages 279-288, March.
    4. Echica van Kelle & Sarah I. Spronk & Denis Kibira & Carolien J. Aantjes, 2023. "Rethinking the donor's role in strengthening health systems through sexual and reproductive health and rights partnerships: A qualitative analysis of Ugandan case studies," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 35(7), pages 1711-1730, October.
    5. Colin D Butler, 2019. "Philanthrocapitalism: Promoting Global Health but Failing Planetary Health," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-20, March.
    6. Sophie Witter & Natasha Palmer & Dina Balabanova & Sandra Mounier‐Jack & Tim Martineau & Anna Klicpera & Charity Jensen & Miguel Pugliese‐Garcia & Lucy Gilson, 2019. "Health system strengthening—Reflections on its meaning, assessment, and our state of knowledge," International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(4), pages 1980-1989, October.
    7. Kawonga, Mary & Blaauw, Duane & Fonn, Sharon, 2015. "Exploring the use of social network analysis to measure communication between disease programme and district managers at sub-national level in South Africa," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 135(C), pages 1-14.
    8. Ahmed, Haitham M. & Mitchell, Marc & Hedt, Bethany, 2010. "National implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI): Policy constraints and strategies," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 96(2), pages 128-133, July.
    9. Anna Cavalli & Sory I Bamba & Mamadou N Traore & Marleen Boelaert & Youssouf Coulibaly & Katja Polman & Marjan Pirard & Monique Van Dormael, 2010. "Interactions between Global Health Initiatives and Country Health Systems: The Case of a Neglected Tropical Diseases Control Program in Mali," PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Public Library of Science, vol. 4(8), pages 1-7, August.

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