Health Product Supply Chains in Developing Countries: Diagnosis of the Root Causes of Underperformance and an Agenda for Reform
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-Well-functioning supply chains to deliver medicines, vaccines, and other health products form the backbone of the health system. Health product supply chains in developing countries are fraught with many problems. Ineffective supply chains weaken the overall health system's ability to respond to the healthcare needs of the population and put treatment programs at risk. This article provides an overview of the structure of health product supply chains in developing countries and outlines the main challenges and their root causes. It aims to identify key areas of reform to ensure that supply chains enable-or at least do not impede-achieving the targeted health outcomes from the increased investments in global health.
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A related paper identifies weak health product supply chains as the root cause of in many developing countries.
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The Introduction says weak supply chains put treatment programs at risk and weaken health systems in developing countries. It calls supply chains one of the key bottlenecks, not “the root cause”; the citing sentence also omits what they are purportedly the root cause of. The paper instead examines the root causes of supply-chain underperformance. (LLM, conf=0.83)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredAccess to quality essential medicines in developing countries including Nigeria continues to be a challenge.
“access to quality essential medicines in developing countries including Nigeria continues to be a challenge [2, 6].”
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- Authors
- Yadav, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yadav, Prashant
- ORCID
- Yadav, Prashant
- Venue
- Health Systems & Reform
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2015-02-17
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 142-154
- ISSN
- 2328-8604 (ISSN-L)
- 2328-8620
- OpenAlex
- W2133825501
- Cited by
- 308
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 59 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 33 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 20.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Health Systems & Reform (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Finance › Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Supply Chain and Inventory Management
- Keywords
- medicine distribution, vaccine distribution, supply chain reform, developing countries, global health investment, health system resilience
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