Strengthening Applied Epidemiology in West Africa: Progress, Gaps, and Advancing a Regional Strategy to Improve Health Security

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virgil Kuassi Lokossou ◽  
Issiaka Sombie ◽  
Césaire Damien Ahanhanzo ◽  
Carlos Brito ◽  
Simon Nyovuura Antara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Regional Strategy ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Improve Health

scholarly journals The Roles of WHO in Handling Yemen Humanitarian Crisis during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Ghita Fadhila Andrini
Keyword(s):  
International Aid ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Humanitarian Crisis ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Role Concept ◽  
Health Situation ◽  
Improve Health

Yemen is noted to have the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. This condition is due to the civil war for the past six years, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which emerged as a health security threat. This research aims to analyse the WHO’s role in responding health crisis in Yemen. By using qualitative methods and literature review approach, this article uses Atlas.ti to collect data regarding WHO’s activity in Yemen throughout the pandemic analysed by the international organisation’s role concept according to Clive Archer. The health security concept is also used to explain the health situation in Yemen during the pandemic. This research found accordance between WHO’s activities with Clive Archer’s idea of roles, mainly on its role as an independent actor to combat the health crisis in Yemen. However, the three roles are intertwined. As WHO has emphasised the importance of international aid to overcome Yemen’s health emergency, the writer recommends strengthening global solidarity with Yemen’s authority to improve health within the country. 

scholarly journals Strengthening International Health Security by Embedding the Role of Civil Society Organizations in National Health Systems: Lessons from the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola Response

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Hushie ◽  
Rita Suhuyini Salifu ◽  
Iddrisu Seidu
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
National Health ◽  
International Health ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Middle Income

Following the recent global health crises, such as the 2014 Ebola and 2016 ZIKA outbreaks, the international health community’s ability to deal with such threats has been debated. Amid discussions of how international health security (IHS) and related national health systems should and could be strengthened, the potential of harnessing the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) for more effective responses has been frequently raised. Such participation is often based on the notion that CSOs by their grassroots presence can more effectively help to address health security and health systems challenges in affected populations and communities. Using the World Health Organization’s (WHO) health systems’ building blocks as an evaluative framework, this chapter examines CSOs’ roles and responsibilities during the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola Outbreak and how they can be further empowered to perform these functions. The chapter draws conclusions about the opportunities and challenges CSOs represent for strengthening IHS and national health systems during public health emergencies in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

From Threat to Risk? Exceptionalism and Logics of Health Security

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-276
Author(s):  
Jessica Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
West Africa ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Governance ◽  
Recent Contribution ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Health Politics ◽  
The Us ◽  
Complete Alignment ◽  
Explicit Consideration

Abstract The logic of “risk” is increasingly important in the study of global health politics. One recent contribution has even argued that risk is beginning to replace security as the defining logic of health governance and policy. Others dispute this on the basis that risk and security have always operated together in the “securitization” of disease. This article constitutes a theoretical intervention into this burgeoning debate. Does a stronger appreciation of risk warrant the diminishment of security? Are we looking at the “riskification” of health rather than “securitization”? Or would this miss the way these two logics might be complimentary or intertwined in ways that we are yet to theorize? I argue that the global health and securitization literatures are better served by an explicit consideration of risk and security logics in interplay, or never entirely encompassed by the other, nor in complete alignment, yet never truly separate. To do this, I propose a reconceptualization of the central problem—exceptionalism—that allows for risk to be understood as a form of exceptionalist politics. I demonstrate the validity of this approach through an otherwise “easy case” of securitization: the US response to the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

scholarly journals A Cross-Cutting Approach to Surveillance and Laboratory Capacity as a Platform to Improve Health Security in Uganda

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (S1) ◽  
pp. S-76-S-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Lamorde ◽  
Arthur Mpimbaza ◽  
Richard Walwema ◽  
Moses Kamya ◽  
James Kapisi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Security ◽  
Laboratory Capacity ◽  
Improve Health

scholarly journals Economic analysis of new rural cooperative medical service financing model based on environment perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 269 ◽  
pp. 01018
Author(s):  
Chang Liu ◽  
Huaisheng Li ◽  
Shanxing Luo
Keyword(s):  
Medical Service ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Fund Raising ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Life Cycle Theory ◽  
Financing Cost ◽  
Development Level ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Multiple Health ◽  
Improve Health

The purpose of this paper is to continuously to improve health security benefit of China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical System (CNRCMS). In the light of consumer’s choice theory and life-cycle theory, from the perspective of cost, efficiency and utility, this paper analyses the health effects of the typical financing models in different environments. The results show that different environmental conditions are significantly related to the adaptability of the rural social and economic development level to the fund-raising model. The conclusion is that improving the environment and establishing multiple health insurance mode are of great significance to reduce the financing cost and improve the health status of the CNRCMS.

scholarly journals Corruption and Health Sector Performances in West Africa Countries: A Theoretical Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. p13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oladayo Timothy Popoola
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
West African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Health Development ◽  
Government Failure ◽  
Improve Health

The fact that corruption has become one of the most notoriously persistent and progressively worsening social and welfare problems afflicting virtually all economic processes today is indisputable; while critics of corruption have long argued that corruption reflects government failure in providing health development infrastructures. This paper however provided the basis of theoretical interrelationships between corruption and health sector performances in West African countries. The paper also examines various policies measures as employed by other nations as lessons to improve the performances of health sector in these countries. One implication of these results as evidenced from Singapore, Hong Kong and Tunisia, is that attainment of stronger and effective institution and good governance will lower corruptive practices and improve health sector performances in West Africa nations. The paper therefore calls on governments of West African countries to concentrate on strengthening their institutions especially by reducing corruptive practices and promoting accountability, integrity and transparency in health sector.

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