Global Leader Views on HSS
What do some leaders in global health have to say about the importance of Health Systems Strengthening and the potential role of HSAN?
HSAN invited Lola Dare, Anne Mills, Hernán Rosenberg, and Ronald Waldman to share views on the challenges developing countries face to increase access to critical health interventions in the context of weak and dysfunctional health systems. What follows are insights from these global experts to four questions regarding the importance of strong health systems and a role for HSAN.
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"It is impossible to strengthen health systems within the uncoordinated investment environment that we currently have. Country-level action alone cannot resolve this problem, we need the synergy of country and global level action." |
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"The onus should be placed on these initiatives to prove that they are supporting the health system, rather than weakening it." |
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"Because system-oriented approaches do not have quick impacts on health indicators there is a big temptation to bypass systems to reach users quickly, rather than try to fix the system." |
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"A health systems 'impact statement' should be de rigeur for all
disease-specific global initiatives, and for local ones as well." |