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Marchal et al., writing in 2009, called the term "vague" and argued that "most current HSS strategies are selective (i.e., they target a specific disease), and their effects may undermine progress towards the long-term goal of effective, high-quality, and inclusive health systems."
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that roughly means to improve the health care system of a country. Within this general definition, it can mean increasing funding for health infrastructure, improving health policy, trying to achieve
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Various health organizations have claimed to use health systems strengthening (while not necessarily agreeing on the definition). Some of these are:
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Even advocates of health systems strengthening admit that it can often seem like a "distant, even abstract aim".
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Both the idea of health systems strengthening and the term itself have received attention.
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Organizations that use health systems strengthening
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Health system strengthening
global health
universal healthcare
systems thinking
World Health Organization
US Agency for International Development
GAVI Alliance
Global Fund
PEPFAR
Stop TB Partnership
Roll Back Malaria
Peter Berman
World Bank
Timeline of global health
Health system § Health systems performance
"Health Systems Strengthening Glossary"
World Health Organization
the original
"Conversation with Amanda Glassman on August 27, 2013"
GiveWell
"New Perspectives in Health Systems Strengthening"


"Systems Thinking for Health Systems Strengthening"





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