Ownership of health financing policies in low-income countries

• Verfasst von: Kiendrébéogo, Joël [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Meessen, Bruno [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Ownership of health financing policies in low-income countries
• Titelzusatz: a journey with more than one pathway
• Verf.angabe: Joël Arthur Kiendrébéogo, Bruno Meessen
• E-Jahr: 2019
• Jahr: 11 September 2019
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 15.01.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: BMJ global health
• Ort Quelle: London : BMJ Publishing Group, 2016
• Jahr Quelle: 2019
• Band/Heft Quelle: 4(2019,5) Artikel-Nummer e001762, 6 Seiten
• ISSN Quelle: 2059-7908
• DOI: doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001762
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: health economics
• Sach-SW: health policy
• Sach-SW: health systems
• K10plus-PPN: 1687423296

Abstract

Summary box - - There is broad international consensus that weak governmental ownership can compromise the long-term sustainability of development policies in low-income countries (LICs).1 Ownership has thus become a cornerstone of official development assistance, as evidenced by the prominent place it occupies in international resolutions such as the Paris Declaration (2005), the Accra Agenda for Action (2008) and the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (2011). Despite this strong signal, coming from both donors and ‘recipient’ countries, problems persist, especially in Africa.2 3 - - Ownership is an elusive concept. The Paris Declaration attempted to assess it by the ‘number of countries with national operational development strategies that have clear strategic priorities linked to a medium-term expenditure framework and reflected in annual budgets’; but this indicator proved disappointing.4 Ownership can be approached through different perspectives (eg, ‘governmental ownership’, ‘country ownership’ or ‘democratic ownership’).5 In this commentary, we will focus on ‘country ownership’ of health financing policies which, unlike ‘governmental ownership’, is much broader as it also …