What do you believe is possible in global health?
What do you believe is possible in global health?
I believe that effective global health aid must result in quality healthcare delivery that is efficient, consistent, and sustainable while at the same time establishing programmatic and systemic improvements to the healthcare system. No excuses.
What do you believe in? I am asking because I also believe that beliefs determine actions and actions determine results. To improve global health results, we must be open to what is possible and understand how the global health business works. You may be wondering how to do that. Let’s start with these three questions:
Ask yourself:
1. Do I believe that every emergency room in every health center and district hospital must and will look like the one in the photo above in the next 10 to 15 years?
2. Do I believe that every child will receive a well-known number of effectively life-saving health services in their first year of life in the next 10 to 15 years?
3. Do I believe that every pregnant woman must have access to quality antenatal, delivery and post-natal services in the next 10 years?
If you answered yes to the questions above that means that you already know how to improve the way health facilities work, and you know how to improve child health programs and maternal health programs that will avoid millions of preventable deaths.
Then one question remains: why don’t we do it now if we know how to do it? What stops global health aid projects from being effective instruments that deliver lasting results? Let’s work together to find practical answers to these and other questions. Join me in a teleconference to discuss “The Right to Health and Getting Back to Basics” on January 29 at 12:00noon, EST.
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