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| Global Health |
| The Challenge of Mobilizing Health Care Resources for the Poor |
| Posted on March 29, 2004 |
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Courtesy PAHO and Stop TB Partnership
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Poverty and health are so intricately interrelated that three out
of eight Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs)
are aimed directly at improving global health as a way to fight world
poverty. The challenges are great — to reduce child mortality
by two-thirds (Goal
4), maternal mortality by three-quarters (Goal
5), and to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB and other infectious
diseases (Goal 6). Yet global health experts agree that, unless unprecedented
levels of financial support, policy reform, and program coordination
takes place among donors, governments and civil society, it is unlikely
that these goals will be met or sustained until 2015. Increasingly,
stakeholders recognize that donor harmonization, human resource capacity
building, better monitoring and evaluation of health programs are
critical for successfully delivering health care services on the ground.
• “Global Health: The Challenge of Mobilizing Health Care Resources for the Poor” coincides with World
Health Day on April 7
and an array of international activities related to global public
health. Nineteen topic pages address the issues, with a special focus
on the importance of effective resource mobilization-- from capacity
building in health care professions to how ICT is used to control
malaria in the developing world. Dr. Yuanli Liu, a member of the
UN
Millennium Project Task Force 5,
speaks about health care reform in China and challenges to meeting
the MDGs.
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| Governance/TD>
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In health sector decentralization and resource allocation in developing countries, government accountability for service delivery is critical.
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| Privatization |
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Why government intervention is needed to ensure access to health care for poor people--even if private providers can lower costs and improve quality.
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| Population and Reproductive Health |
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Global strategies to ensure reliable access to contraceptives and other commodities are needed as a fundamental requirement for reproductive health.
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| Capacity development for MDGS |
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Shortages in health care professionals who can design and implement health programs could be obstacles in achieving the MDGs.
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| Trade and Development |
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Trade can impact access to adequate health care in developing countries, according to a former WHO researcher.
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| Microfinance |
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Access to microfinance services can help households build safety nets to deal with the impact of disease.
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| HIV/AIDS |
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How the Millennium Project is using analysis and policy recommendations to draw battle plans to fight HIV/AIDS
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| Iraq: Relief and Recovery |
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Addressing Iraq's high infant mortality rate is a top priority of the newly autonomous Ministry of Health.
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| Poverty |
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Case Studies: Efforts to reduce health inequalities in developing countries.
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| Innovations and Development |
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Grassroots mobilization for health care leads to innovations, from Brazil to South Africa.
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| Indigenous People |
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Indigenous people are among the target populations for Vaccination Week in the Americas, seeking to protect 40 million people from infectious disease.
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| Urban Development |
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A chronic disease of the urban poor, TB can be controlled by community care centers that follow the DOT regime.
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| Non-governmental Organizations |
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Global Health Council promotes better health around the world by advancing access to information and resources to improve global health.
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| Culture and Development |
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Traditional medicine draws on cultural practices that provide health care to both remote and mainstream populations.
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| ICT for Development |
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Community level surveillance can use space techonologies to track early warning about malaria.
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| Water Resource Management |
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Lack of proper water sanitation is a root cause of many diseases worldwide such as malaria, diarrhea, cholera, and others.
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| Gender and Development |
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Conflict areas can reduce access to healthcare and jeopardize the health and well-being of women and girls.
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| Youth for Development |
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Youth in conflict areas go through experiences that can last a lifetime, including post-traumatic stress disorder.
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| Food Security |
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WHow much improvement has been made in maternal and child nutrition in post-conflict Afghanistan?
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| Dr. Yuanli Liu
| Dr. Yuanli Liu, an Assistant Professor of International Health at the
Harvard School of Public Health, is a member of the UN Millennium Project Task Force 5 on global health.
An expert in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of China's rural and urban health system reforms,
his study on rural health insurance in China was instrumental in influencing the country's leadership in
establishing rural health policies. Dr. Liu discusses his work in China, the challenges facing the
development community in achieving the health-related MDGs, and his own diagnostic for improving accessibility
to essential medicines.
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