Role of district health management teams in child health strategies

Tanya Doherty; Nhan Tran; David Sanders; Sarah L Dalglish; David Hipgrave; Kumanan Rasanathan; Thiagarajan Sundararaman; Rajani Ved; Elizabeth Mason

doi:10.1136/bmj.k2823

Role of district health management teams in child health strategies

BMJ. 2018 Jul 30:362:k2823. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2823.

Authors

Tanya Doherty^{1

2

3}, Nhan Tran⁴, David Sanders^{2

5}, Sarah L Dalglish⁶, David Hipgrave⁷, Kumanan Rasanathan⁷, Thiagarajan Sundararaman⁸, Rajani Ved⁹, Elizabeth Mason¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
² School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
⁴ Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town.
⁶ Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁷ Health Section, Unicef, New York, USA.
⁸ School of Health Systems Studies, Tata Institute of Social Studies, Mumbai, India.
⁹ National Health Systems Resource Center, New Delhi, India.
¹⁰ Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.

Abstract

Well functioning district health systems are essential for planning and implementation of health services, and their efforts are key to improving quality of care and achieving health goals, say Tanya Doherty and colleagues

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Child
Child Health / economics
Child Health Services / economics
Child Health Services / organization & administration*
Delivery of Health Care / economics
Delivery of Health Care / organization & administration*
Health Care Reform
Health Facility Administration* / economics
Health Facility Administration* / education
Humans
Internationality

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International