Toward health system strengthening in low- and middle-income countries: insights from mathematical modeling of drug supply chains.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Global health priority setting increasingly focuses on understanding the functioning of health systems and on how they can be strengthened. Beyond vertical programs, health systems research should examine system-wide delivery platforms (e.g. health facilities) and operational elements (e.g. supply chains) as primary units of study and evaluation.

Methods

We use dynamical system methods to develop a simple analytical model for the supply chain of a low-income country's health system. In doing so, we emphasize the dynamic links that integrate the supply chain within other elements of the health system; and we examine how the evolution over time of such connections would affect drug delivery, following the implementation of selected interventions (e.g. enhancing road

SUBMITTER: Jbaily A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7445921 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature