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From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 
 
Evidence-based action needed on health systems  

 

Andy Haines, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Cesar Victora, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil

Volume 364, Number 9441     02 October 2004

 

The Lancet:  http://www.thelancet.com 

 

"...Weaknesses in health systems are increasingly becoming recognised as major barriers to the achievement of improved health in low-income countries. A series of articles on health systems begins this week in The Lancet which seeks to stimulate discussion about how best these deficiencies can be addressed. The first article focuses on inequities in health and suggests how such inequities might be overcome. The series also addresses key issues such as the evidence underpinning policies to recruit, train, motivate, and retain the health personnel needed and approaches to sustainable financing of health systems. Other articles cover how to scale-up effective interventions to reach those who can most benefit, and how to ensure that research findings can influence policy and practice more effectively. 

 

The articles are appearing in the run up to the Ministerial Summit on Health Research in Mexico next month, and will culminate in an issue of The Lancet featuring several papers reporting the findings of research projects on health-systems issues as well as accompanying Comment.."

 

            Articles: 

 

1  Haines A, Victora C, Horton R. The Lancet's series on health systems research: a call for papers.  Lancet  2004; 363: 261-62. [Text] 
    24 January 2004

 

2  Travis P, Bennett S, Haines A, et al. Overcoming health-systems constraints to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.  Lancet  2004; 364: 900-06
    4 September 2004. [Text] 

 

3  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. [Text] 11 September 2004


 

 

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