PHA-Exchange> How to strengthen health systems?

[Claudio]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 
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>From Professor Andy Haines, Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and chair of the WHO Task Force on Health Systems Research.

 

Although the context is broad - health systems - many of the issues relate directly to access/use of health information in developing countries. 
Please send any comments to Dr Ulysses Panisset:  panissetu at who.int   before the end of October if possible.

 

Health systems constraints are impeding the implementation of major global  initiatives for health including the attainment of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and research could contribute to overcoming these  barriers to progress.

 

An independent task force has been convened by WHO to suggest topics where  international collaborative research could help to generate the knowledge  necessary to improve health systems. The topics  should be viewed as tentative suggestions which form a basis for further discussion. This article is part of a wide-ranging consultation  and interested parties  are invited to comment on these topics. This article and an accompanying paper that makes the case for health systems  research have recently published in the Lancet (1,2).

 

We would particularly value suggestions about important topics that you think have been omitted from the agenda and about specific research  questions related to the suggested topic areas. In each case it would be helpful if you could say why you think a particular topic or question is  important and how new knowledge from research could infuence policy and practice. We would also like to hear about experience of national or local health systems research agenda setting.

 

The potential topics will be revised in the light of responses and presented at the World Summit on Health Research in November of this year.  Subsequently it is hoped to achieve a commitment of resources to generate the evidence needed to build the equitable, effective and efficient health systems required to achieve the MDGs.

 

Thanks in advance for your contributions.

 

Andy Haines (chair, on behalf of the Task Force)

 

 

1.Travis P, Bennett S, Haines A, Pang T, Bhutta Z, Hyder A, Pielemeier N, Mills A, Evans T.

Overcoming health-systems constraints to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.  Lancet 2004; 364: 900-906

.  http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol364/iss9437/full/llan.364.9437.review_and_opinion.30656.1

 

2.Task Force on Health Systems Research: Informed choices for attaining the Millennium Development Goals: towards an international cooperative agenda 

for health systems research.  Lancet 2004; 364 997-1003

                -  http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol364/iss9438/full/llan.364.9438.review_and_opinion.30695.1

 

The Task Force gratefully acknowledges the permission of the Lancet to circulate this article.

 

To download the online version of the articles, which are available free at:

1.  http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol364/iss9437/full/llan.364.9437.review_and_opinion.30656.1 

2.  http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol364/iss9438/full/llan.364.9438.review_and_opinion.30695.1 

 

 

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