When Both Markets and Governments Fail Health
This paper presents the rationale and motivation for countries and the global development community to tackle a critical set of functions in the health sector that appear to be under-prioritized and underfunded. The recent eruptions of Ebola outbreaks in Africa and other communicable diseases like Z...
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| description | This paper presents the rationale and motivation for countries and the global development community to tackle a critical set of functions in the health sector that appear to be under-prioritized and underfunded. The recent eruptions of Ebola outbreaks in Africa and other communicable diseases like Zika and SARS elsewhere led scientific and medical commissions to call for global action. The calls for action motivated the World Health Organization (WHO) to respond by defining a new construct within the health sector: Common Good for Health (CGH). While the starting point for developing the CGH construct was the re-emergence of communicable diseases, it extends to additional outcomes resulting from failures to act and finance within and outside the health sector. This paper summarizes global evidence on failures to address CGHs effectively, identifies potential reasons for the public and private sectors’ failures to respond, and lays out the first phase of the WHO program as represented by the papers in this special issue of Health Systems & Reform. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8ca8ef75cd4944dfad156f3e65cfb6152022-12-21T21:33:41ZengTaylor & Francis GroupHealth Systems & Reform2328-86042328-86202019-10-015426827910.1080/23288604.2019.16607561660756When Both Markets and Governments Fail HealthAbdo S. Yazbeck0Agnès Soucat1Johns Hopkins UniversityWorld Health OrganizationThis paper presents the rationale and motivation for countries and the global development community to tackle a critical set of functions in the health sector that appear to be under-prioritized and underfunded. The recent eruptions of Ebola outbreaks in Africa and other communicable diseases like Zika and SARS elsewhere led scientific and medical commissions to call for global action. The calls for action motivated the World Health Organization (WHO) to respond by defining a new construct within the health sector: Common Good for Health (CGH). While the starting point for developing the CGH construct was the re-emergence of communicable diseases, it extends to additional outcomes resulting from failures to act and finance within and outside the health sector. This paper summarizes global evidence on failures to address CGHs effectively, identifies potential reasons for the public and private sectors’ failures to respond, and lays out the first phase of the WHO program as represented by the papers in this special issue of Health Systems & Reform.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23288604.2019.1660756common goods for healthmarket failure |
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| title | When Both Markets and Governments Fail Health |
| title_full | When Both Markets and Governments Fail Health |
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| title_short | When Both Markets and Governments Fail Health |
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| topic | common goods for health market failure |
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