Health systems research in fragile settings
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2019-06-01Author
Ager, Alastair
Saleh, Shadi
Wurie, Haja
Witter, Sophie
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Ager, A., Saleh, S., Wurie, H. & Witter, S. (2019) Health systems research in fragile settings [Editorial]. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 97 (6), pp. 378-378A.
Abstract
Population health indicators have improved in recent decades. Deaths in children younger than five years have
declined from over 16 million in 1970 to around 5 million in 2016 and life expectancy at birth has increased from
58 to over 70 years in the same period. However, a major constraint to such progress, and in some contexts a
potential source of reversal, is fragility.