Edited by Juliet Nabyonga-Orem, Martin Ota, Aziza Mwisongo and Joses Muthuri Kirigia.
Volume 16 Supplement 4
Health policy dialogue: lessons from Africa
Research
Publication of this supplement has been supported by the WHO Africa Regional Office. The articles have undergone the journal's standard peer review process for supplements. The Supplement Editors declare that they have no competing interests.
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Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16(Suppl 4):214
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Global health initiatives in Africa – governance, priorities, harmonisation and alignment
The advent of global health initiatives (GHIs) has changed the landscape and architecture of health financing in low and middle income countries, particularly in Africa. Over the last decade, the African Regio...
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An analytical perspective of Global health initiatives in Tanzania and Zambia
A number of Global health initiatives (GHIs) have been created to support low and middle income countries. Their support has been of different forms. The African Region has benefitted immensely from GHIs and c...
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Policy dialogue to improve health outcomes in low income countries: what are the issues and way forward?
This paper has three objectives: to review the health development landscape in the World Health Organization African Region, to discuss the role of health policy dialogue in improving harmonisation and alignme...
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Perspectives on health policy dialogue: definition, perceived importance and coordination
Countries in the World Health Organization African Region have witnessed an increase in global health initiatives in the recent past. Although these have provided opportunities for expanding coverage of health...
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Space and place for WHO health development dialogues in the African Region
Majority of the countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region are not on track to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals, yet even more ambitious Sustainable Development Goal...
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Global Forum 2015 dialogue on “From evidence to policy – thinking outside the box”: perspectives to improve evidence uptake and good practices in the African Region
The Global Forum 2015 panel session dialogue entitled “From evidence to policy – thinking outside the box” was held on 26 August 2015 in the Philippines to debate why evidence was not fully translated into pol...
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Assessing policy dialogues and the role of context: Liberian case study before and during the Ebola outbreak
In the last decade participatory approaches have gained prominence in policy-making, becoming the focus of good policy-making processes. Policy dialogue is recognised as an important aspect of policy-making am...
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Policy dialogues – the “bolts and joints” of policy-making: experiences from Cabo Verde, Chad and Mali
Policy processes that yield good outcomes are inherently complex, requiring interactions of stakeholders in problem identification, generation of political will and selection of practical solutions. To make po...
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The role of power in health policy dialogues: lessons from African countries
Policy-making is a dynamic process involving the interplay of various factors. Power and its role are some of its core components. Though power exerts a profound role in policy-making, empirical evidence sugge...
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Coordination of the health policy dialogue process in Guinea: pre- and post-Ebola
Policy dialogue can be defined as an iterative process that involves a broad range of stakeholders discussing a particular issue with a concrete purpose in mind. Policy dialogue in health is increasingly being...
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Improved harmonisation from policy dialogue? Realist perspectives from Guinea and Chad
Harmonisation is a key principle of the Paris Declaration. The Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Partnership, an initiative of the European Union, the Government of Luxembourg and the World Health Organization, ...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2016 16(Suppl 4):222
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