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Health Systems Resilience in Managing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from 28 Countries.

Health systems resilience is key to learning lessons from country responses to crises such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This article synthesizes four salient elements that underlie highly effective national responses and offer recommendations toward strengthening health systems resilience globally.

Publication Year:

2021

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SPARC

Author:

Victoria Haldane, Chuan De Foo, Salma M. Abdalla, Anne-Sophie Jung, Melisa Tan, Shishi Wu, Alvin Chua, Monica Verma, Pami Shrestha, Sudhvir Singh, Tristana Perez, See Mieng Tan, Michael Bartos, Shunsuke Mabuchi, Mathias Bonk, Christine McNab, George K. Werner, Raj Panjabi, Anders Nordström & Helena Legido-Quigley
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A message from the partners of the Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC)

Since 2018, The Strategic Purchasing Africa Resource Center (SPARC) has been a unique and significant force in supporting countries within Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) in crucial areas of strategic health purchasing (SHP), Healthcare Financing as they make progress towards the realization of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) goals. This initiative, a collaboration between Amref Health Africa and Results for Development (R4D), has made expertise in these areas more accessible and has been instrumental in the progress of the target countries. The initiative was designed to advance policy discussions and actions that strengthen the application of strategic health purchasing to strengthen African health systems and support countries as they address foundational reforms…

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