Health Systems
- Transforming Supply Logistics for Health Commodity Security in Africa
Current efforts to ensure health commodity security in Africa must be extended to include transforming existing public and private logistics infrastructure for inventory management into a state of prudent multiplicity while also considering efforts to improve product selection, demand quantification, procurement, and service delivery.
- Bangladesh: 50 Years of Advances in Health and Challenges Ahead
Bangladesh has inspired the rest of the world with its remarkable health achievements over the past half-century. A considerably stronger government investment in health care is now needed to achieve universal health coverage and “Health for All” in Bangladesh.
- Surgical System Efficiency and Operative Productivity in Public and Private Health Facilities in Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Evaluation
The surgical system in Ethiopia in both public and private health facilities was inefficient, requiring immediate action to improve timely access to safe surgical care.
- COVID-19 Vaccine Collaborative Supply Planning: Is This the Next Frontier for Routine Immunization Supply Chains?
Collaborative supply planning approaches established for the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out can be adapted to routine immunization for improved vaccine management.
- Leveraging COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Monitoring in Ethiopia and Pakistan to Enhance System-Wide Safety Surveillance
This article demonstrates the importance of strengthening surveillance systems that monitor adverse events following immunization in Ethiopia and Pakistan to ensure vaccine safety and effectiveness and build public confidence in vaccination programs.
- Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing the National Patient Safety Implementation Framework in Public Health Facilities in Tamil Nadu: A Qualitative Study
The study findings identified numerous implementation challenges that will make it difficult to fully implement the National Patient Safety Implementation Framework in public health facilities in Tamil Nadu by 2025.
- Improving Program Outcomes Through Responsive Feedback: A Case Study of a Leadership Development Academy in Nigeria
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency in Nigeria used a responsive feedback mechanism to successfully establish a leadership development academy for building core leadership, management, and basic functional skills among its staff.
- Exploring the Adaptations of the Free Maternity Policy Implementation by Health Workers and County Officials in Kenya
To achieve the objectives of the free maternity policy in Kenya and overcome implementation challenges, health care workers and county officials—as policy implementers—covertly and unofficially developed local arrangements and adaptive strategies.
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Medical Product Procurement, Prices, and Supply Chain in Zimbabwe: Lessons for Supply Chain Resiliency
The authors document how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted medical product supply chain and procurement in Zimbabwe, impacting medicine access and prices. Policies and interventions are needed to ensure ongoing supply chain resilience.
- Health System Strengthening Through Professional Midwives in Bangladesh: Best Practices, Challenges, and Successes
The authors detail the establishment of the profession of globally standard midwives deployed into the national health care system in Bangladesh that improved the quality and availability of sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, and adolescent health services.