Africa Knowledge Management Portal
Informing health decisions and actions
Systems Thinking for Health Systems Strengthening
Digital Health
Health Information Systems
Description
Despite strong global consensus on the need to strengthen health systems, there is no established framework for doing so in developing countries, and no formula to apply or package of interventions to implement. Many health systems simply lack the capacity to measure or understand their own weaknesses and constraints, which effectively leaves policy-makers without scientifically sound ideas of what they can and should actually strengthen. Within such unmapped and misunderstood systems, interventions - even the very simplest - often fail to achieve their goals