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Achieving a "Grand Convergence" in Global Health by 2035: Rwanda Shows the Way Comment on "Improving the World´s Health Through the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Perspectives From Rwanda"

Monday, 9th of May 2016

Int J Health Policy Manag. 2015 Jul 29;4(11):789-91. doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.143.

Achieving a "Grand Convergence" in Global Health by 2035: Rwanda Shows the Way Comment on "Improving the World´s Health Through the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Perspectives From Rwanda"

Yamey G¹, Fewer S¹, Beyeler N¹.

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Abstract below; full text is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4629710/

Global Health 2035, the report of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, laid out a bold, highly ambitious framework for making rapid progress in improving global public health outcomes. It showed that with the right health investments, the international community could achieve a "grand convergence" in global health-a reduction in avertable infectious, maternal, and child deaths down to universally low levels-within a generation. Rwanda´s success in rapidly reducing such deaths over the last 20 years shows that convergence is feasible. Binagwaho and Scott have argued that 5 lessons from this success are the importance of equity, quality health services, evidence-informed policy, intersectoral collaboration, and effective collaboration between countries and multilateral agencies. This article re-examines these lessons through the lens of the Global Health 2035 report to analyze how the experience in Rwanda might be generalized for other countries to making progress towards achieving a grand convergence.

© 2015 by Kerman University of Medical Sciences.

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