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COVID-19 and Health Systems Functioning in Sub-Saharan Africa Using the “WHO Building Blocks”: The Challenges and Responses
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has made major progress in improving access to health care over the past three decades. Despite efforts made toward achieving universal health coverage, the health systems of countries in the sub-region are inundated by a myriad of challenges that have become more virulent a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9013894/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35444973 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.856397 |
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author | Amu, Hubert Dowou, Robert Kokou Saah, Farrukh Ishaque Efunwole, John Adebayo Bain, Luchuo Engelbert Tarkang, Elvis Enowbeyang |
author_facet | Amu, Hubert Dowou, Robert Kokou Saah, Farrukh Ishaque Efunwole, John Adebayo Bain, Luchuo Engelbert Tarkang, Elvis Enowbeyang |
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description | Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has made major progress in improving access to health care over the past three decades. Despite efforts made toward achieving universal health coverage, the health systems of countries in the sub-region are inundated by a myriad of challenges that have become more virulent amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper discusses the health systems challenges and responses in SSA amidst the COVID-19 using the World Health Organization's (WHO) building blocks of health systems functioning. Long-lasting abysmal health system financing and insufficient government investment in SSA pose major challenges to the effective health systems functioning amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This situation also makes it difficult for the health system to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic and at the same time, cater for other essential health services. Countries in SSA must prioritize the reformation of their health systems through effective health system policy development and implementation, human resources development, training, service delivery, governance and regulation, and sustainable health financing. |
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spelling | pubmed-90138942022-04-19 COVID-19 and Health Systems Functioning in Sub-Saharan Africa Using the “WHO Building Blocks”: The Challenges and Responses Amu, Hubert Dowou, Robert Kokou Saah, Farrukh Ishaque Efunwole, John Adebayo Bain, Luchuo Engelbert Tarkang, Elvis Enowbeyang Front Public Health Public Health Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has made major progress in improving access to health care over the past three decades. Despite efforts made toward achieving universal health coverage, the health systems of countries in the sub-region are inundated by a myriad of challenges that have become more virulent amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper discusses the health systems challenges and responses in SSA amidst the COVID-19 using the World Health Organization's (WHO) building blocks of health systems functioning. Long-lasting abysmal health system financing and insufficient government investment in SSA pose major challenges to the effective health systems functioning amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This situation also makes it difficult for the health system to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic and at the same time, cater for other essential health services. Countries in SSA must prioritize the reformation of their health systems through effective health system policy development and implementation, human resources development, training, service delivery, governance and regulation, and sustainable health financing. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9013894/ /pubmed/35444973 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.856397 Text en Copyright © 2022 Amu, Dowou, Saah, Efunwole, Bain and Tarkang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Amu, Hubert Dowou, Robert Kokou Saah, Farrukh Ishaque Efunwole, John Adebayo Bain, Luchuo Engelbert Tarkang, Elvis Enowbeyang COVID-19 and Health Systems Functioning in Sub-Saharan Africa Using the “WHO Building Blocks”: The Challenges and Responses |
title | COVID-19 and Health Systems Functioning in Sub-Saharan Africa Using the “WHO Building Blocks”: The Challenges and Responses |
title_full | COVID-19 and Health Systems Functioning in Sub-Saharan Africa Using the “WHO Building Blocks”: The Challenges and Responses |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 and Health Systems Functioning in Sub-Saharan Africa Using the “WHO Building Blocks”: The Challenges and Responses |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 and Health Systems Functioning in Sub-Saharan Africa Using the “WHO Building Blocks”: The Challenges and Responses |
title_short | COVID-19 and Health Systems Functioning in Sub-Saharan Africa Using the “WHO Building Blocks”: The Challenges and Responses |
title_sort | covid-19 and health systems functioning in sub-saharan africa using the “who building blocks”: the challenges and responses |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9013894/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35444973 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.856397 |
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