tailieunhanh - Innovations in Supporting Local Health Systems for Global Women’s Health

Conventional approaches to health in poor countries focus on disease–specific interventions and their cost effectiveness, implemented via the path of least resistance with a strong emphasis on short term results. The upshot is that sys- temic problems which underlie poor health, failing health systems, and health inequity are circumvented. Long–term, sustainable strategies are rarely devel- oped or deployed. The crisis may change its spots, expressing itself in different diseases, populations or geographic areas, but it essentially continues unabated. The most fundamental challenge is to sustain the political pressure and leadership required over the long term to strengthen and restore health systems — health systems that will not. | InnovaSon itfn SuppoZtingivT Local Health Systems for Global Women s Health Summary Report of the Wye River MD Conference Hosted by Realizing Rights The Ethical Globalization Initiative Council of Women World Leaders Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Sponsors Realizing Rights The Ethical Globalization Initiative EGI is a project led by former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson and is a partnership of the Aspen Institute Columbia University and the International Council on Human Rights Policy. EGI s mission is to mobilize and influence political economic and civil society leaders in order to tackle global inequities by connecting human security human development and human rights. The Council of Women World Leaders is a network of current and former prime ministers presidents and cabinet ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development. Through its networks summits and partnerships the Council promotes good governance and gender equality and enhances the experience of democracy globally by increasing the number effectiveness and visibility of women who lead their countries. Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health is the only accredited school of public health in New York City and is among the first in the nation. Its students and multidisciplinary faculty members engage in research both locally and globally concentrating on biostatistics environmental health sciences epidemiology health policy and management population and family health and sociomedical sciences. In the field of global health the Mailman School has played a leadership role in improving delivery of health services through such programs as its Averting Maternal Death and Disability AMDD program its MTCT-Plus Initiative and other AIDS programs and through its involvement in the UN Millennium Project .