Policy Brief
Health Governance: Concepts, Experience, and Programming Options
Mar 5 2008
A policy brief issued by Health Systems 20/20 on the threat that weak governance poses to the allocation of health resources in the developing world.
Particularly as global programs inject huge amounts of funding targeting specific diseases, weaknesses in health system governance threaten to undermine the effective utilization of the funds. Corruption is perhaps the most dramatic governance-related threat, but in addition poor accountability and transparency, weak incentives for responsiveness and performance, and limited engagement of citizens in health affairs contribute to low levels of system effectiveness as well.
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Source: Health Systems 20/20
