Publication: ICTs for Health in Africa
Date
2014
ISSN
Published
2014
Author(s)
Shekar, Meera
Otto, Kate
Abstract
Countries in Africa spend significant
amounts of their GDP on delivering health services through
systems that are often inefficient, costly and lacking in
transparency. Information and communication technologies
(ICTs) have the potential to transform the delivery of
health services across the continent in ways that not only
increase efficiency but also improve accountability (World
Bank, 2004). ICTs present a large, unexploited potential for
transforming governance and transparency in the health
sector in Africa to achieve 'more health for money
spent' and thereby improve the efficiency of health
spending, both domestic- and donor-financed. ICTs present a
large, unexploited potential for transforming governance and
transparency in the health sector in Africa to achieve
'more health for money spent' and thereby improve
the efficiency of health spending, both domestic, and donor-financed.
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Citation
“Shekar, Meera; Otto, Kate. 2014. ICTs for Health in Africa. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19020 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”