Nov 30 2011
In this post on Management Sciences for Health's (MSH) "Global Health Impact" blog, MSH President and CEO Jonathan Quick discusses how investing in family planning services and integrating those services into other health care initiatives can save money over the long term and strengthen health systems. "Indeed, strengthening health systems is key to meeting the need for family planning. It will take strong political commitment, country ownership and leadership, multi-sectoral collaboration, and both health and non-health interventions," he writes (11/28).
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente. |