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Foreign aid or foreign investments: call for a paradigm shift in mentality and nomenclature
Funding for health care programs has over the years been an important challenge for health and health care services. However with the advent of financing, part of this problem was resolved. Through these investments, lives were saved, many destinies recovered and some obsolete systems reengineered....
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The African Field Epidemiology Network
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4470451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26113945 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.20.214.6174 |
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author | Oleribe, Obinna Ositadimma Nwanwanyu, Okey |
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description | Funding for health care programs has over the years been an important challenge for health and health care services. However with the advent of financing, part of this problem was resolved. Through these investments, lives were saved, many destinies recovered and some obsolete systems reengineered. Major proofs of these expenditures are number of people reached and sometimes number of sites opened/supported, which in several cases, are not entirely verifiable. Sustainable development from these funds is limited, and far and in between. This is despite the fact that supports for health care and health care services have been ongoing for more than 60 years. As long as these funds are seen as aids to developing countries, they will continue to fail to achieve their primary objectives. But looking at these as investments in supported countries will significantly improve the outcome, health system impacts, as well as engineer sustainable health system strengthening and improvement. Such a re-branding will reduce the politics of support, improve effectiveness and efficiency in the use of the resources, and empower receiving nations towards better health systems. |
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spelling | pubmed-44704512015-06-25 Foreign aid or foreign investments: call for a paradigm shift in mentality and nomenclature Oleribe, Obinna Ositadimma Nwanwanyu, Okey Pan Afr Med J Commentary Funding for health care programs has over the years been an important challenge for health and health care services. However with the advent of financing, part of this problem was resolved. Through these investments, lives were saved, many destinies recovered and some obsolete systems reengineered. Major proofs of these expenditures are number of people reached and sometimes number of sites opened/supported, which in several cases, are not entirely verifiable. Sustainable development from these funds is limited, and far and in between. This is despite the fact that supports for health care and health care services have been ongoing for more than 60 years. As long as these funds are seen as aids to developing countries, they will continue to fail to achieve their primary objectives. But looking at these as investments in supported countries will significantly improve the outcome, health system impacts, as well as engineer sustainable health system strengthening and improvement. Such a re-branding will reduce the politics of support, improve effectiveness and efficiency in the use of the resources, and empower receiving nations towards better health systems. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2015-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4470451/ /pubmed/26113945 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.20.214.6174 Text en © Obinna Ositadimma Oleribe et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Oleribe, Obinna Ositadimma Nwanwanyu, Okey Foreign aid or foreign investments: call for a paradigm shift in mentality and nomenclature |
title | Foreign aid or foreign investments: call for a paradigm shift in mentality and nomenclature |
title_full | Foreign aid or foreign investments: call for a paradigm shift in mentality and nomenclature |
title_fullStr | Foreign aid or foreign investments: call for a paradigm shift in mentality and nomenclature |
title_full_unstemmed | Foreign aid or foreign investments: call for a paradigm shift in mentality and nomenclature |
title_short | Foreign aid or foreign investments: call for a paradigm shift in mentality and nomenclature |
title_sort | foreign aid or foreign investments: call for a paradigm shift in mentality and nomenclature |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4470451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26113945 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2015.20.214.6174 |
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