BRIC Health Systems and Big Pharma: A Challenge for Health Policy and Management

BRIC Health Systems and Big Pharma: A Challenge for Health Policy and Management.

BRIC nations - Brazil, Russia, India, and China - represent 40% of the world's population, including a growing aging population and middle class with an increasing prevalence of chronic disease. Their healthcare systems increasingly rely on prescription drugs, but they differ from most other healthcare systems because healthcare expenditures in BRIC nations have exhibited the highest revenue gr...

Nurses Work Motivation: A Big Challenge for Health System; a Review article

Background and Objectives: Motivation is an internal state that fosters human activities; and is associated with factors such as job satisfaction, quality of care and durability of nurses in their profession. The aim of this study was to review and describe work motivation among nurses around the world. Materials and Methods: After searching the related keywords and removing the duplicates, ...

Balancing Management and Leadership in Complex Health Systems; Comment on “Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health”

Health systems, particularly those in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), need stronger management and leadership capacities. Management and leadership are not synonymous, yet should be considered together as there can be too much of one and not enough of the other. In complex adaptive health systems, the multiple interactions and relationships between people and elements of the system me...

Health and Health Care in BRIC Nations

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...

Health Management Mentoring for Health Systems Strengthening: A Response to Recent Commentaries