Global health initiative investments and health systems strengthening: a content analysis of global fund investments
Open Access
- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Globalization and Health
- Vol. 9 (1), 30
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-9-30
Abstract
Millions of dollars are invested annually under the umbrella of national health systems strengthening. Global health initiatives provide funding for low- and middle-income countries through disease-oriented programmes while maintaining that the interventions simultaneously strengthen systems. However, it is as yet unclear which, and to what extent, system-level interventions are being funded by these initiatives, nor is it clear how much funding they allocate to disease-specific activities – through conventional ‘vertical-programming’ approach. Such funding can be channelled to one or more of the health system building blocks while targeting disease(s) or explicitly to system-wide activities.This publication has 52 references indexed in Scilit:
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