Outputs (22)

The ‘diagonal’ approach to Global Fund financing: A cure for the broader malaise of health systems? (2008)
Journal Article
Ooms, G., Van Damme, W., Baker, B., Zeitz, P., & Schrecker, T. (2008). The ‘diagonal’ approach to Global Fund financing: A cure for the broader malaise of health systems?. Globalization and Health, 4, Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-4-6

Background: The potentially destructive polarisation between 'vertical' financing (aiming for disease-specific results) and 'horizontal' financing (aiming for improved health systems) of health services in developing countries has found its way to th... Read More about The ‘diagonal’ approach to Global Fund financing: A cure for the broader malaise of health systems?.

Denaturalizing scarcity: a strategy of enquiry for public-health ethics (2008)
Journal Article
Schrecker, T. (2008). Denaturalizing scarcity: a strategy of enquiry for public-health ethics. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 86(8), 600-605. https://doi.org/10.2471/blt.08.050880

Most scarcities that underpin health disparities within and among countries are not natural; rather, they result from policy choices and the operation of social institutions. Using examples from the United States of America: the Chicago heat wave and... Read More about Denaturalizing scarcity: a strategy of enquiry for public-health ethics.