health, development and globalisation
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Health, Development and globalisation MPH COURSE 005
Compiled by Prof J. Mfutso-Bengo PhD
Director of Centre of Bioethics for Eastern and Southern Africa
http://www.medcol.mw/wtbioethics/index.htm
What should MPH students know about global health
• Global health principles and policies
• Know the differences between global and international health research
• Identify key challenges to global health
• Recognize the importance of information sharing in the area of global health
• Recognize the importance of preventive activities in improving global health
• Recognize the need for global networking to mobilize resources for global health locally and globally
Let us define Development, Health and Globalisation
• Development is……
• Health…….
• Globalisation…..
What is health?
Health is a social, spiritual, ethical,
psychological, cultural, gender,
economic and political issue and
above all a fundamental human
right.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• “Everyone has the right to a standard of living
adequate for the health and well being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care.”
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
What is sustainable development? • Trading blocks
• MDGS, MPR, MDG
• WTO
• Malawi vision 2020
• GNP, GDP, HDI
• Paris Declaration, Accra Declaration, Doha declaration-Trips, Abuja Declaration
• SADC, COMESA, ACP
• Unfair trade
What is global health?
• Global health is an important new term, and an important new concept. The Institute of Medicine refers to global health as "health problems, issues, and concerns that transcend national boundaries, may be influenced by circumstances or experiences in other countries, and are best addressed by cooperative actions and solutions.“
KEERTI BHUSAN PRADHAN once said that ,
“Nothing on earth is more International than
Disease”
Global Health content and challenge
Part A: Health for All in the 'borderless world'?
Part B: Health care services and systems
B1: Health care systems and approaches to health
B2: Medicines
B3: The global health worker crisis
B4: Sexual and reproductive health
B5: Gene technology
Part C: Health of Vulnerable Communities
C1: Indigenous peoples
C2: Disabled people
Part D: The wider health context
D1: Climate change
D2: Water
D3: Food
D4: Education
D5: War
Part E Holding to account: global
institutions, transnational corporations,
rich countries
E1: World Health Organization
E2: UNICEF
E3: World Bank and International Monetary
Fund
E4: Big business
E5: Aid
E6: Debt relief
E7: Essential health research
Part F Conclusions
What are the challenges to global health
• Discuss
There are many challenges to global health with different professionals emphasizing
different diseases.
Interdisciplinary approaches are needed to ease the burden of both communicable
and non-communicable diseases
Are there opportunities for global health in the age of globalisation
• Discuss
Challenges
• What is 10-90 gap?
• Credit crunch?
• Donor fatigue ?
• Dependence syndrome?
• Corruption?
10-90 gap is equity issue
• Define 10-90 gap
• Define equity –treat equals equally and unequal unequally
• Define all forms of justice
Digital divide: gap between haves and
have nots
One of the biggest global health
challenges is access to information
Education is the most
powerful weapon
which you can use to
change the world. Nelson Mandela
Defining and measuring
• Can we strictly define and measure equity in any standard or statistical sense?
• Precise definition and therefore measurement is challenging • Equity and justice are closely related philosophical /ethical constructs • Equity and justice are concerned with fairness, impartiality, rightfulness,
reward or penalty as deserved • Arday et al (1998) “…. health disparities or inequalities and the fairness
and effectiveness of the procedures for addressing them” • Braveman & Tarimo (2002) “Avoidable disparities in health or its key
determinants that are systematically observed between groups of people with different levels of underlying social privilege i.e. wealth, power or advantage”
Gavin Mooney (1987) definition
– “equity is a philosophical issue and not surprisingly there are many
arguments”
– “.. what might be considered as the first and most basic conclusion about equity; that it is a value laden concept which has no uniquely correct definition (in some objective and /or scientific sense)”.
Four dimensions of equity in health care by Culyer and Wagstaff (1993)
1. Equality of utilization
2. Distribution according to need,
3. Equality of access and
4. Equality of merit.
Defining and Measuring equity(smarter)
1. In spite of these difficulties of standard definition, and the fact that some of the definitions are mutually incompatible in analysis, there is not really much argument that there are local, national and international inequalities or differences in relation to health whatever approach the analyst takes, that are unfair and avoidable
2. Some of these differences are so stark as to cause problems for the international, national and local conscience
3. There are extensive reviews and descriptions of some of these problems especially between countries and regions of the world
4. There is some within country analysis literature in developed but much less literature on the subject within developing countries
Why are there inequities in global health?
1. Individual and population health is a complex function of the interaction of factors related to: – Biology – Environment – Sociology and Culture – Politics – Economics – History – Health systems – Public good
2. Increasingly countries do not exist in isolation and local, national and international factors all interact to influence health
3. These factors influence individual and group environment, privileges and behavior and thus health
4. They influence national and international policy making and choices and thus the health of individuals and groups
Global challenges of addressing these inequities
1. The interrelated multifactor nature of the causes of the problem (spider web)
2. Many of the causes may actually lie in part or even in whole outside the “bio medical sector” and be related more ethical, social or structural in nature.
3. Simple linear interventions may in some cases create a new set of problems rather than a sustainable solution (the solutions of today become the problems of tomorrow)
4. This makes interventions difficult in many cases and requiring cross disciplinary /sector, and multi factor thinking and solutions
Global Challenges of addressing Health Inequities: The Spider Web
Global challenges of addressing these inequities
1. Balancing short term and long-term planning
2. The need to contextualize rather than adopt a one size fits all approach
3. Lack of responsible politics
4. Lack of evidence based approach in problem solving
Role of Health Policy and systems research:
1. Information generation
• Describing /Measuring the problems and their extent
• Comparison
• Cause analysis
• Interventions and solution identification and evaluation
2. Information dissemination for utilization
Think globally and act locally
1. An illustration of some of the difficulties in interpretation the little information available and making decisions related to resolving inequities
2. Data to support decision making, monitoring and evaluation, capacity, teasing out what works in a situation of complex variables,
3. Many decisions are not evidence based
4. Solution are copied without adopting them to the local context
Global Health / Public Health
1. In developed countries – The rate of infectious diseases decreased through the 20th
century largely due to broad public access to water and sewage systems, sanitation, immunizations and economic prosperity.
– Public health then began to put more focus on chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease.
2. In developing countries – People remain plagued by largely preventable infectious
diseases, exacerbated by malnutrition and poverty.
Global health systems
• WHO
• WTO -
• Global Fund
• Global policy for global health e.g., Paris Declaration
• Grand challenge-Gates and Melinda
• UNAIDS
• SWAPS
• Funding systems-World Bank, IMF, DIFID,EU
• International partnership for health
• International paternalism
• International political will
What is a Global health system?
1. It is the sum total of all the organizations, institutions and resources whose primary purpose is to improve health.
2. A health system needs staff, funds, information, supplies, transport, communications and overall guidance and direction.
3. It needs to provide services that are responsive and financially fair, while treating people decently.
Where are the gaps?
1. Problems with health systems are not confined to poor countries.
2. Some rich countries have large populations without access to care because of inequitable arrangements for social protection.
3. Others are struggling with escalating costs because of inefficient use of resources.
4. Can you give example
My growing rowing recognition 1. Systems matters more than leadership
2. Good leaders create & leave efficient & working systems
3. Good leadership without good systems nothing works
4. Good systems without good leadership something works
5. Overall there is a growing recognition that to maintain and improve the health of the world’s people
6. Governments must create sufficient, efficient & equitable health systems
7. That government should provide effective disease prevention and treatment to all women, men and children, no matter who they are or where they live.
The role of government and its leadership
• Stewardship
• Health Financing
• Provision of workforce with proper knowledge, attitude-skills
• Proper & working health information management systems
• Drugs and technology-access, availability, quality, efficacy, safety and rational use of drugs
• Discovery-development and delivery
• Sustainable health development
• Promoting professionalism and good governance
Politics of health & diplomacy
• Define Health diplomacy
• Social determinants of health (See WHO documents)
Importance of PESTEL (STEEPLE)
• It helps in becoming aware of internal & external factors or Forces of Health systems
• It facilitates realistic planning and thinking
WHAT DOES PESTEL MEAN?
• P-Political
• E-Economic
• S-Social
• T-Technological
• E-Ethical
• L-Legal
The uses of PESTEL
• Strategic planning
• As part of SWOT analysis
What are political factors
• Financing, funding, grants
• Peace or Conflict
• Political leadership
• Political trends
• Governance Issues
What are economic factors
What are social factors?
• Demographics, • Immigration • Role models • Attitude • Population Shift • Age • Social Mobility • Work/career/attitudes • Health Conscious • Living condition • Media Views
What are technological factors?
What are ethical factors?
• Transparency
• Accountability
• Honesty
• Integrity
• Responsibility
• Respect
What are legal factors?
Health, Politics and Diplomacy
• Global health is also determined by political diplomacy, advocacy & disease global impact
• Health and political diplomacy led to the establishment of WHO
Birth of the WHO
• April 1945
• 7th April 1948-Formal Existence
• World Health Day-7th April
• Specific theme each year
WHO OBJECTIVE
1. The attainment by all peoples of the highest level of health
2. Act as the directing and coordinating authority on all International health work
3. Prevention and Control of specific Diseases
4. Development of Comprehensive Health Services
5. Family Health
6. Environmental and occupational Health
7. Reproductive health
WHO Support
1. An increase in effective services to all people in need, including service delivery management and support
2. Improved patient safety, efficacy of services and financial protection
3. Increased efficiency and building of financial, human, institutional, and knowledge capacities
4. Coordinated, participatory and accountable policy formulation and implementation.
Structure
1. World Health Assembly
2. The Executive Board
3. The Secretariat
Regions
1. South East Asia-New Delhi
2. Africa-Harare (Zimbabwe)
3. The Americas-Washington D C (USA)
4. Europe-Copenhagen (Denmark)
5. Eastern Mediterranean-Alexandria (Egypt)
6. Western Pacific-Manila (Philippines)
7. SEARO: (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Korea, Maldives, Timor-Leste, Myanmar, Nepal, Srilanka, Thailand)
Who is the Director General of WHO?
Resource mobilization for global health: the role of WHO
• PLEASE DISCUSS
The challenges of attracting donor aid
• PLEASE DISCUSS
TRIPS
• What is TRIPS
• What is the relationship between TRIPS and DOHA Declaration
What is TRIPS
TRIPS is is:
1. Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
2. an international agreement administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO) that sets down minimum standards for many forms of intellectual property (IP) regulation. It was negotiated at the end of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1994.
Doha declaration
• In 2001, developing countries concerned that developed countries were insisting on an overly-narrow reading of TRIPS, initiated a round of talks that resulted in the Doha Declaration: a WTO statement that clarifies the scope of TRIPS; stating for example that TRIPS can and should be interpreted in light of the goal "to promote access to medicines for all."
Why did African countries delayed in implementing Doha Declaration
• Compassionate use of patented drugs
• Production and use of generic drugs
The problem of aid effectiveness
1. Contradictory policy of the northern partner (problem of
coherence).
2. Power imbalance between donors and recipients
3. Donor-oriented development agenda
4. Lack of systems of global governance of global aid
5. How to measure impact of development aid + its
strategies and methods?
6. Technical questions of development cooperation are not fully resolved
Paris Declaration on AID EFFECTIVENESS
1. Ownership-contextualization
2. Harmonization
3. Alignment-Maximising the use of country systems
4. Performance-action plans-targets
5. Mutual accountability-M +E
Strategies for getting donor aid?
1. Right based approach
2. Shock therapy approach
3. Moral persuasion
4. Beggars approach
Landscape review of AID: From Paris
declaration towards Accra
1. Aid is increasing
2. Aid is still underperforming
3. There is a need for change
Change, why change?
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When is Aid Effective?
1. When it helps countries achieve their own development goals.
2. Three conditions are needed:
– Predictability.
– Accountability.
– Cost-effectiveness.
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Is Aid Effective?
1. Levels of aid are increasing (with international Commitments and new donors)…
2. but aid is still underperforming
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Contents
1. What is Aid Effectiveness?
2. Monitoring the Paris Declaration: Has Progress Been Achieved?
3. High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action: What can we expect?
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What is the Evidence?
1. Aid is Effective when countries achieve their own development goals. Three conditions are needed:
Predictability
Accountability
Cost Effectiveness
2. 2006 Survey in 34 countries showed significant challenges
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42% of aid was recorded in countries’ budgets
GOV.
BUDGET
ESTIMATES
AID DISBURSED
AFGHANISTAN ZAMBIA MOZAMBIQUE
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800
750
700
650
600
550
450
Vietnam (791)
Cambodia (568)
Honduras (521)
Mongolia (479)
Uganda (456)
Aid is Costly: 10 453 missions in 34 countries in 2005
Number of donor missions in 2005 66
Try Managing this ….
Source; Don De Savigny & COHRED
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Aid Fragmentation: too many donors contributing too little?
Number of donors together providing just one tenth of a country’s aid
(Gross disbursements of CPA, 2005-06)
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2008 Survey: 56 Countries
Asia & Pacific
Tanzania Mozambique Yemen
Afghanistan Benin Nigeria Latin America
Bangladesh Burkina Faso Togo Haiti
Cambodia Burundi Madagascar Colombia
Indonesia Cameroon Ethiopia Peru
Mongolia Cape Verde Côte d’Ivoire Bolivia
Nepal CAR Ghana Honduras
Vietnam Chad Kenya Nicaragua
Philippines P NG
DR Congo Morocco
Liberia Sierra Leone
Dom. Republic
Tonga Gabon Malawi ECIS
Lao PDR Mali Arab States Albania
Africa Mauritania Egypt Ukraine
Uganda Niger Jordan PSG Kosovo
Zambia
Senegal
Sudan Moldova Kyrgyz Republic
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Out of the Starting Blocks…
1. 2008 Survey process and increased dialogue at country level
2. Evidence of better aid coordination
3. Some instances of improved predictability
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What is Accra HLF 3 ?
1. High Level political event on aid
2. Mid-term Stock-taking of the Paris Declaration mutual commitments
3. Forward looking event : road to Paris Targets.
4. 100 partner countries
5. 800 to 1000 participants
6. Strong civil society engagement
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What does the Accra Agenda for Action intend to achieve ?
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What does the Accra Agenda for Action intend to achieve ?
1. Not a new Paris Declaration
2. A political, ministerial statement, setting out a
small set of concrete actions
3. Set future direction for aid effectiveness
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What might it look like? The AAA is likely to identify concrete actions to make
progress on: • 5 principles of the Paris Declaration • 6 priority issues for partner countries
– Predictability – Conditionality – Untying Aid – Capacity development – Incentives – Division of labour
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CASES
• Critical Review of the book: Dead AID by Dr Dambisa Moyo from Zambia
• Brain drain of health workers and international donor response: a policy review
• Male circumcision: policy design
• Doha declaration: policy analysis for Malawi
Dr Dambisa Moyo
Her book is titled: Dead Aid
• Zambia is better off without Aid- Dambisa Moyo • Friday, April 3, 2009, 11:50 • Columns, Headlines • 2,517 views • 143 comments • • Renown Zambian author Dambisa Moyo • By Milimo Moyo, New York • Dr. Dambisa Moyo has revealed that she is scheduled to visit Zambia next week to speak to the
government about aid-related issues raised in her popular new book, Dead Aid: Why Aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa.
• Speaking to a packed audience at an event organized by the Carniege Council in New York City on April 2, 2009, Dr. Moyo stated that the Zambian government had invited her for in-depth discussions related to reducing aid-dependence and finding alternatives for long-term economic development. Her talk at the Carniege Council was part of her high profile U.S book tour that has drawn well-deserved attention from a wide spectrum of media, charity, government and academic institutions.
• During the talk, Dr. Moyo discussed her motivations for writing the book, problems associated with the Aid model and the various ways that African countries can generate their own income thus reducing their dependence on foreign development Aid. She also decried celebrities’ tendency to speak for Africa in a manner that was couched in pity.
• “Perhaps the most of awful thing is that when they speak about Africa, they do so with pity,” she said adding that America would not tolerate a foreign celebrity telling U.S President, Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary, Tim Geitner how to fix the current credit crunch.
• Dr. Moyo, a Zambian-born economist formerly employed at Goldman Sachs and the World Bank, has caused a stir in the United States and around the world with her refreshing and forthright analysis of the problems stemming from development aid dependence in most African countries.
• In her book, Dr. Moyo makes the case that an estimated $1 trillion worth of so-called development aid to Africa in the last five decades has dismally failed to create long-term, sustainable development on the African continent. Dead Aid examines the history of the aid-model of development and outlines specific indicators of its failure including corruption, bureaucracy, civil and political strife, a lack of entrepreneurship and inflation, among others. More importantly, Dr. Moyo’s book suggests ways in which African countries could reduce their dependence on aid and generate their own income through participation in the bond markets and trade.
Critique of her book
• While Dr. Moyo’s book has been well-received by many, some critics have adopted a contentious and somewhat misleading approach to criticizing Dead Aid. Dr. Moyo told the audience at the Carniege Council that as a result of certain misconceptions, she has found herself defending her book during her tour in America. For example, the aid advocacy group ONE, has posted what it considers a critique of Dr. Moyo’s book on its website charging that Dr. Moyo’s suggestion to stop aid in five years’ time is “reckless and seems to pay no heed to the fact that millions of Africans are on life-saving AIDS medications today paid for by aid”. However, ONE ignores the fact that Dr. Moyo categorically excludes humanitarian and charity-based aid from her pejorative view of development aid to Africa.
• Despite explaining this in her book and subsequent interviews and discussions, critics have been quick to accuse Moyo of spreading an “irresponsible” message that could result in the deaths of “African babies”. One can only smile at the dramatics.
• Regardless of what some critics have said, Dead Aid is set to be a bestseller both in the west and Africa. It has captivated many people’s attention so far and is fast gaining the attention of readers everywhere. In New York City, Dr. Moyo’s book promotion events have drawn enormous crowds. She has also been interviewed by an array of prominent publications and media personalities including Charlie Rose, Bill Baher and Steven Colbert.
Comments and Information on the High Level Forum and
drafts of the Accra Agenda for Action can be found at:
www. accrahlf.net
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