Seizing the moment to rethink health systems.


Journal

The Lancet. Global health
ISSN: 2214-109X
Titre abrégé: Lancet Glob Health
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101613665

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
12 2021
Historique:
received: 19 04 2021
revised: 23 07 2021
accepted: 28 07 2021
pubmed: 11 9 2021
medline: 25 11 2021
entrez: 10 9 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The COVID-19 pandemic has made vivid the need for resilient, high-quality health systems and presents an opportunity to reconsider how to build such systems. Although even well resourced, well performing health systems have struggled at various points to cope with surges of COVID-19, experience suggests that establishing health system foundations based on clear aims, adequate resources, and effective constraints and incentives is crucial for consistent provision of high-quality care, and that these cannot be replaced by piecemeal quality improvement interventions. We identify four mutually reinforcing structural investments that could transform health system performance in resource-constrained countries: revamping health provider education, redesigning platforms for care delivery, instituting strategic purchasing and management strategies, and developing patient-level data systems. Countries should seize the political and moral energy provided by the COVID-19 pandemic to build health systems fit for the future.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34506770
pii: S2214-109X(21)00356-9
doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00356-9
pmc: PMC8423432
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

e1758-e1762

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of interests We declare no competing interests.

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Auteurs

Kojo Nimako (K)

Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Team, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Accra, Ghana. Electronic address: kojotwumnimako@gmail.com.

Margaret E Kruk (ME)

Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

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