1. First Nations From the opening session, the importance of the First Nations people for resilient health systems was strongly demonstrated. It was a great opportunity for many people to get to know the descendants of the Squamish, Tsliel-waututh, and Musqueam – the native people of British Columbia – who led both the opening prayer and entertainment. With the symbolic …
Before coming to the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, my thinking about resilience, coming from a Northern Uganda, recovering from over 20 years of war, was generally negative – something that occurs to you, and you are helpless; a sort of adaptation. Our people were considered to be resilient because despite hearing gunshots almost daily for over 15 …
Par Seni Kouanda est un Chercheur senior à l’Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé et Enseignant au département de Santé Publique de la faculté de Médecine de l’Université de Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso. Ses domaines d’expertise sont la santé l’épidémiologie, la Santé Publique et la santé de la reproduction. 1. Selon vos perspectives de chercheur, sur quoi doivent …
I can’t believe HSR2016 is already coming to an end. It’s been a hectic week of sessions, side meetings, and networking with a wealth of interesting people from around the world – all working to build more resilient and responsive health systems. HSR 2016 is the first major conference I have attended, so in this blog post I wanted to …
La Photo Voice: L’utilisation des images attire mieux l’attention que les mots. La photovoice peut être une méthode pour conduire la recherche qui parle dans un contexte de faible niveau d’instruction. Cette approche peut être promue auprès des acteurs communautaires pour le plaidoyer et l’engagement des leaders communautaires. La photo peut fournir des évidences pour un plaidoyer mais on a …
Surprisingly, my initial impression was that leadership would be, among other things, participatory in nature for it to be effective, and so maybe there would be no real need to even coin this as being “participatory.” But, upon further reflection, there is a clear need to distinguish between leadership, as it is traditionally known, and participatory leadership. The Alliance for …
A l’issue de cette journée du Symposium (Session plénière et sessions parallèles), les principaux éléments sont : A l’issue des discussions, la résilience apparait clairement comme un résultat que tout système de santé doit chercher à définir et atteindre dans son contexte. Il est également clair que les pays à revenu faible puissent développer une vision claire de ce qu’est la …
We are increasingly seeing several service delivery programmes running at country level, particularly in South East Asia. For example, in India, we have seen the implementation of many programmes that are top-down and vertical in nature. Citizen demand has never been considered while implementing social security schemes for health and different political environments present significant challenges for sustainable service delivery. …
We heard the voices of young health systems researchers and their mentors loud and clear the Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) organized session on day one of the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. The EV4GH, is a unique Thematic Working Group of the Health Systems Global. The opening plenary of the Symposium, set the scene for the …
