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    Health in fragile states: an overview note

    High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 2005
    Progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) requires that more attention be paid to the situation of countries in which often, but not exclusively, as a result of prolonged conflict, governments cannot, or will not provide the stewardship needed.
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    Achieving the Health Millennium Development Goals in fragile states

    High-Level Forum on the Health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 2004
    The success of the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) requires major improvements in health systems and health outcomes across the developing world.
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    Health service delivery in early recovery fragile states: lessons from Afghanistan, Cambodia, Mozambique, and Timor Leste

    BASICS fragile and post-conflict states publications, 2006
    The past decade has been marked by a global concern with the number of countries that are unwilling or unable to adequately ensure their people’s security and development needs.
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    Everybody's business: strengthening health systems to improve health outcomes: WHO’s framework for action

    World Health Organization, 2007
    It will be impossible to achieve national and international goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), without greater and more effective investment in health systems and services. The World Health Organization (WHO) faces many of the same challenges being tackled by countries.
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    Health programming for rebuilding states: a briefing paper

    BASICS fragile and post-conflict states publications, 2007
    A significant shift has occurred recently in the orientation of U.S. foreign assistance policy. Not long ago, U.S. social sector programmes, including health, were undertaken primarily for humanitarian reasons. Today, political considerations play a much larger role.
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    Towards better leadership and management in health: report on an international consultation on strengthening leadership and management in low-income countries

    World Health Organization, 2007
    To achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), many low-income countries need to significantly scale up coverage of priority health services. This report by the World Health Organization is based on deliberations from an international consultation on strengthening leadership and management as an essential component to scaling health services to reach the MDGs.
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    Primary health care vs. emergency medical assistance: a conceptual framework

    Health Policy and Planning, 2002
    Primary health care (PHC) and emergency medical assistance (EMA) are discussed as two fundamentally different strategies of delivering health care. PHC is conceptualised as part of overall development, while EMA is delivered in disaster or emergency situations. This article in Health and Policy Planning contrasts the underlying paradigms, and the characteristics of care in PHC and EMA.
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    Health information systems in humanitarian emergencies

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005
    The production of health information is an important function of a health system. This paper from the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation (WHO) aims to address those Health Information System (HIS) issues that are peculiar to humanitarian emergencies.
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    Absorptive capacity of health systems in fragile states

    HLSP Institute, UK, 2005
    What can donors do for the health sector in fragile states? This paper from the HLSP Institute outlines some principles and approaches that can help to address absorptive capacity constraints, and to support long term development of health systems. It begins by looking at the broad context and at the multiple challenges (political, economic and practical) faced by donors.
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    Advances in monitoring have not translated into improvements in humanitarian health services

    Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2007
    The field of humanitarian relief is relatively promising. Methods for documenting basic health measures on the local level have been developed and general health priorities have been documented. This paper in Prehospital and Disaster Medicine reviews the advances and shortfalls in data collection and use of health data that have occurred during health emergencies in recent decades.

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