Investments for effective functionality of health systems towards Universal Health Coverage in Africa: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT: The health challenges in Africa underscore the importance of effectively investing in health systems. Unfortunately, there is no information on systems investments adequate for an effective functional health system. We aimed to address this by conducting a scoping review of existing evidence following the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Evidence Synthesis and preregistered with the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/bvg4z). We included any empirical research describing interventions that contributed to the functionality of health systems in Africa or any low-income or lower-middle-income regions. We searched Web of Science, MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, and ERIC from their inception, and hand-searched other relevant sources. We summarized data using a narrativ

SUBMITTER: Karamagi HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021830 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature