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ArticleGlobalization and health2013

The health systems funding platform and World Bank legacy: the gap between rhetoric and reality.

Scott S Brown, Kasturi Sen, Kristof Decoster

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Article in Globalization and health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Scott S BrownSchool of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston Rd, Herston, QLD 4006. scottbrown@mail.org
Kasturi Sen
Kristof Decoster

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global health partnerships created to encourage funding efficiencies need to be approached with some caution, with claims for innovation and responsiveness to development needs based on untested assumptions around the potential of some partners to adapt their application, funding and evaluation procedures within these new structures. We examine this in the case of the Health Systems Funding Platform, which despite being set up some three years earlier, has stalled at the point of implementation of its key elements of collaboration. While much of the attention has been centred on the suspension of the Global Fund's Round 11, and what this might mean for health systems strengthening and the Platform more broadly, we argue that inadequate scrutiny has been made of the World Bank's contribution to this partnership, which might have been reasonably anticipated based on an historical analysis of development perspectives. Given the tensions being created by the apparent vulnerability of the health systems strengthening agenda, and the increasing rhetoric around the need for greater harmonization in development assistance, an examination of the positioning of the World Bank in this context is vital.

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Cooperative BehaviorDelivery of Health CareEfficiency, OrganizationalFinancing, OrganizedHumansUnited Nations

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PMID23497327
PMCPMC3607847

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