Post conflict states
Health care provision in post-conflict states is achieved in two discrete stages, firstly via humanitarian aid (delivered in emergency situations) and then via development aid (delivered in peace-time to a legitimate government through a specific financing mechanism). However, in practice, the boundaries between these forms of aid are frequently blurred, since violence can occur post-conflict and the political and economic dynamics of war continue in peace-time.
Consensus has still not been reached on the sequencing of post-conflict interventions such as rebuilding infrastructure, strengthening of the state, security provisions and macro-economic interventions. The key issue is how to deliver aid, including service delivery and relief, in a way that supports the dynamics of peace.
- Iraq Health Update
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This update reviews the Iraq health situation since 2005. The paper highlights the following health related consequences of the war: The author argues that the disastrous security situation has paralysed the Iraqi health sector.
Recommended readings
- Dilemmas of post-conflict transition: lessons from the health sector
- ( J. Macrae / Overseas Development Institute, London , 1995)
- This paper, published by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), examines the experience of the health sector in situations of post-conflict transition in Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Uganda. It argues ...
- HIV/AIDS and humanitarian action
- ( P. Harvey / Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI , 2004)
- Whether you label HIV/AIDS as an emergency or as a long-term crisis, it clearly requires both a humanitarian response to suffering and a long-term perspective. This research report, produced by the Hu...
Latest Additions
- Basic health care services in Afghanistan
- ( Management Sciences for Health , 2005)
- Since the creation of the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) in Afghanistan in 2003 the country has seen many positive changes in its health care system. This document from the Ministry of Public...
- Targeting aid funds towards health services in Afghanistan
- ( S. Simmonds;F. Ferozuddin / Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK , 2008)
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How can aid funds best be spent in areas of high instability? This scoping study from the British Department for International Development (DFID) argues that development funds would have the m...
- Achieving improvements in Afghan health care
- ( Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , 2006)
- The Ministry of Public Health of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has adopted the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for use as a tool to measure and manage performance in delivery of the Basic Package of He...
