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The 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems?

Overview of attention for article published in Globalization and Health, March 2008
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)

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Title
The 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems?
Published in
Globalization and Health, March 2008
DOI 10.1186/1744-8603-4-6
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Gorik Ooms, Wim Van Damme, Brook K Baker, Paul Zeitz, Ted Schrecker

Abstract

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 the pages of Foreign Affairs and the Financial Times. The opportunity offered by 'diagonal' financing (aiming for disease-specific results through improved health systems) seems to be obscured in this polarisation. In April 2007, the board of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria agreed to consider comprehensive country health programmes for financing. The new International Health Partnership Plus, launched in September 2007, will help low-income countries to develop such programmes. The combination could lead the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to a much broader financing scope.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Belgium 2 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Sierra Leone 1 <1%
Other 5 1%
Unknown 453 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 117 24%
Student > Bachelor 75 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 62 13%
Researcher 58 12%
Other 28 6%
Other 84 18%
Unknown 54 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 161 34%
Social Sciences 123 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 32 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16 3%
Arts and Humanities 14 3%
Other 58 12%
Unknown 74 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 April 2022.
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#2,267,081
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Globalization and Health
#378
of 1,226 outputs
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#6,089
of 95,700 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Globalization and Health
#3
of 3 outputs
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