The Challenges of Creating a Global Health Resource Tracking System
Publisher: RAND Corporation; RAND Corp.
Published: April 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780833037275
Subjects: Health systems & services; World health; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Public health surveillance; General; Health Care Delivery; Political Science / General; Health care rationing
First sentence: A growing body of work has documented the dimensions of a global health crisis.
Description: The RAND Corporation conducted interviews, consulted with experts, and carried out detailed analyses of existing tracking systems that focus on health resources flowing to and within developing countries, the objective being to determine how to provide a truly global health resource tracking system that will provide comprehensive, accurate, up-to-date data for policymakers and other users and will address the current systems' limitations.