Redefining Global Health Care

Collaborative efforts by Harvard’s Business, Medical, and Public Health Schools are underway to create a body of knowledge about the delivery of health care in resource-poor locations. These efforts have yielded a framework for refining the delivery of global health care. This framework consists of: creating care delivery value chains for specific medical conditions; creating a shared delivery infrastructure; aligning the delivery of care with the external context; and leveraging health delivery for economic development. Where this framework has been used, it is producing positive results.