Health-industry linkages for local health:Reframing policies for African health system strengthening
| العنوان: | Health-industry linkages for local health:Reframing policies for African health system strengthening |
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| المؤلفون: | Julius Mugwagwa, Maureen Mackintosh, Mercy Karimi Njeru, Paula Tibandebage, Samuel Wangwe, Geoffrey Banda, Jires Tunguhole |
| المصدر: | Mackintosh, M, Mugwagwa, J, Banda, G, Tibandebage, P, Tungohole, J, Wangwe, S & Karimi Njeru, M 2018, ' Health-industry linkages for local health : Reframing policies for African health system strengthening ', Health Policy and Planning, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 602-610 . https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czy022 Health Policy and Planning |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | local production of medicines, Africa, access to medicines, health systems, health-industry linkages, local health, global health, Drug Industry, local health, global health, Health Services Accessibility, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Development economics, Global health, Effective treatment, Humans, health system, 030212 general & internal medicine, health-industry linkages, Access to medicines, Poverty, access to medicines, health care economics and organizations, Pharmaceutical industry, business.industry, 030503 health policy & services, Health Policy, 1. No poverty, Commerce, Cognitive reframing, Original Articles, Africa, Eastern, 3. Good health, Government Programs, Industrialisation, Framing (social sciences), Africa, Costs and Cost Analysis, Local production of medicines, Business, 0305 other medical science, Drugs, Essential, Delivery of Health Care |
| الوصف: | The benefits of local production of pharmaceuticals in Africa for local access to medicines and to effective treatment remain contested. There is scepticism among health systems experts internationally that production of pharmaceuticals in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) can provide competitive prices, quality and reliability of supply. Meanwhile low-income African populations continue to suffer poor access to a broad range of medicines, despite major international funding efforts. A current wave of pharmaceutical industry investment in SSA is associated with active African government promotion of pharmaceuticals as a key sector in industrialization strategies. We present evidence from interviews in 2013–15 and 2017 in East Africa that health system actors perceive these investments in local production as an opportunity to improve access to medicines and supplies. We then identify key policies that can ensure that local health systems benefit from the investments. We argue for a ‘local health’ policy perspective, framed by concepts of proximity and positionality, which works with local priorities and distinct policy time scales and identifies scope for incentive alignment to generate mutually beneficial health–industry linkages and strengthening of both sectors. We argue that this local health perspective represents a distinctive shift in policy framing: it is not necessarily in conflict with ‘global health’ frameworks but poses a challenge to some of its underlying assumptions. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::ae7e1c774c72d3633f37d101d2e8ee31 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11820/bf0f98a6-7d85-447f-a2e3-ae0af7434d82 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....ae7e1c774c72d3633f37d101d2e8ee31 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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