On learning about efforts to strengthen (and reduce harm to) systems for health
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16763059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Sarriot (0000-0002-8889-3063, Formerly Save the Children, Department of Global Health, 899 North Capitol Street NE #900, Washington, DC 20002, USA, corresponding author), William T Story (0000-0003-0229-966X, University of Iowa) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 535-538 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Policy and Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-1080 • E-ISSN: 1460-2237 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/heapol/czac013 |
| PMID | 35137084 |
| OpenAlex | W4210812856 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
We comment on two retrospective, embedded case studies of systems effects of successive projects implemented by Save the Children (SC) previously published by Health Policy and Planning in 2021 (Sarriot et al., 2021; Story et al., 2021). As a health systems specialist (E.S.) and a case study methodologist (W.S.), our primary objective was to extract lessons from the case studies for the benefit of the agency’s health systems strengthening (HSS) strategy, and by extension, for practitioners in what has been called the humanitarian–development nexus (Affun-Adegbulu et al., 2017). The first study examined chronic emergency health and nutrition (EHN) projects in Sudan and Pakistan and the second focused on development projects (integrated community case management, iCCM) in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Mozambique (Box 1). The projects were not specifically identified as ‘HSS’ projects; they were selected purposefully based on potential for learning about effects on systems for health (Box 2), including unintended effects, from successive cycles of implementation.
Agency (philosophy) · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Nexus (standard) · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Engineering · Global Maternal and Child Health · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Medicine · Nursing · Health Policy
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
Institutionalizing community-focused maternal, newborn, and child health strategies to strengthen health systems
The role of integrated community case management projects in strengthening health systems
Community-based intervention packages facilitated by NGOs demonstrate plausible evidence for child mortality impact
Health systems effects of successive emergency health and nutrition projects
Realizing their potential to become learning organizations to foster health system resilience
Pro-sustainability choices and child deaths averted
Evaluating health systems strengthening interventions in low-income and middle-income countries
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |