More articles from EDITORIAL
- A Call to Action: Reinvigorating Interest and Investments in Health Infrastructure
Infrastructure investments can contribute substantially to alleviating burdens of morbidity and mortality while also providing a positive return on investment in the long term.
- Design for Health: Human-Centered Design Looks to the Future
Global health practitioners and designers recognize that real questions remain around the application of human-centered design in global health. This supplement seeks to clarify its value and document lessons learned, while also distilling and demystifying design. We hope the supplement can act as an inspiration in building a shared vision of how design can advance impact in global health.
- Multisectoral Policies and Programming: High-Income Countries Can and Should Be Learning From the Philippines and Other Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The global health field will miss key learning opportunities if it continues to make a false distinction between research of relevance to lowand middle-income countries and research of relevance to high-income countries.
- It’s Time to Move Beyond Traditional Health Care Worker Training Approaches
Isn't it time that the global community move beyond traditional training and supportive supervision models to improve health care worker capacity?
- Strength in Diversity: Integrating Community in Primary Health Care to Advance Universal Health Coverage
The supplement highlights a systems approach that recognizes the communities' roles and their interactions with other health system actors to accelerate outcomes and reflect the diversity of the community health ecosystem. Several cross-cutting priorities emerge from the articles, namely coverage, community health financing, policy change, institutionalization, resilience, accountability, community engagement, and whole-of-society efforts.
- Learning From Neighbors
We can learn valuable lessons from program efforts that at first glance may seem to be far removed from our own work.
- Community Ownership in Primary Health Care—Managing the Intangible
Although enduringly intangible, community ownership is foundational to primary health care. This intangibility is a reminder of what programs can and should do (create space for dialogue, question their own choices, expand diversity in stakeholder voices making sense of program-induced changes, including through evaluation) and what they cannot do (manage someone else’s ownership).
- Counseling Is a Relationship Not Just a Skill: Re-conceptualizing Health Behavior Change Communication by India’s Accredited Social Health Activists
The capacity for India’s community health workers—accredited social health activists (ASHAs)—to promote healthy behaviors must be understood within the health system and community context. Their ability to influence health behaviors depends on the strength of their relationships with families and support they receive from the health system.