Health systems research in fragile settings
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Date
2019-06-01
Citation
Ager, A., Saleh, S., Wurie, H. and Witter, S. (2019) ‘Health systems research in fragile settings’ [Editorial], Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 97(6), pp. 378-378A. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2471/BLT.19.233965.
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.