Sustainable financing mechanisms for strengthening mental health systems in Nigeria

Strengthening health systems for universal health coverage and sustainable development

Putting Management Capacity Building at the Forefront of Health Systems Strengthening; Comment on “Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health”

The current limited focus on management in global health activities is highly problematic given the amounts of financial and human resources that are pouring into health system strengthening interventions and the complexity of clinical operations across settings. By ensuring that public health and healthcare practitioners in domestic and international settings receive management training in the...

A Case for Open Network Health Systems: Systems as Networks in Public Mental Health

Increases in incidents involving so-called confused persons have brought attention to the potential costs of recent changes to public mental health (PMH) services in the Netherlands. Decentralized under the (Community) Participation Act (2014), local governments must find resources to compensate for reduced central funding to such services or “innovate.” But innovation, even when pressure for c...

Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health

Despite a renewed focus in the field of global health on strengthening health systems, inadequate attention has been directed to a key ingredient of high-performing health systems: management. We aimed to develop the argument that management – defined here as the process of achieving predetermined objectives through human, financial, and technical resources – is a cross-cutting function necessa...

Empirical Assessment of the Various Sustainable Financing Mechanisms for Health Care Services in Kenya

Many world economies including Kenya have over the issues endeavored to provide quality health care to its populace. However, the various macroeconomic performance experienced in the late 1980s, negatively affected the government’s ability to sustain the government funded health programs. This is demonstrated by high out-of-pocket spending, and the dwindling of donor support as well as stagnati...