The Global Health System: Actors, Norms, and Expectations in Transition e1000183

Abbreviations: GAVI, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization; GFATM, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; M&E, monitoring and evaluation; R&D, research and development; RBM, Roll Back Malaria Partnership; WHA, World Health Assembly; WHO, World Health Organization Proven...

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Published inPLoS medicine Vol. 7; no. 1
Main Authors Szlezák, Nicole A, Bloom, Barry R, Jamison, Dean T, Keusch, Gerald T, Michaud, Catherine M, Moon, Suerie, Clark, William C
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco Public Library of Science 01.01.2010
Subjects
Actors
Alliances
Health care
Immunization
Low income groups
Mortality
Product development
Public health
Tropical diseases
Tuberculosis
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Summary:Abbreviations: GAVI, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization; GFATM, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; M&E, monitoring and evaluation; R&D, research and development; RBM, Roll Back Malaria Partnership; WHA, World Health Assembly; WHO, World Health Organization Provenance: Commissioned, externally peer reviewed. In the papers presented in this series we summarize representative results from our work for one key actor in, and one key function of, the global health system. [...]the second article in the series, by Frenk [45], reflects on the essential characteristics of functioning national health systems, which are the anchoring institutions of the global health system.
ISSN:1549-1277
1549-1676
DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000183