ISSN: 2640-2653
Toward Pragmatic and Integrated Health Policies Reforms and Transformation in Africa
The significant economic imperatives and ramifications of rising emerging chronic disease epidemics unmet health needs and persisting infectious diseases public health burden is huge across Africa. The article assesses unmet chronic diseases threats and epidemics need and potential threats and emerging issues in strengthening and deepening pragmatic health policy reforms and contextual transformations needed. We call for immediate collective partnership and action to implement innovative and pragmatic initiatives to various facets of personalized telemedicine and artificial intelligence for health to community-centered health systems policy reforms and transformations. Strengthening inter-sectoral partnerships and collaboration is crucial in creating value-needs investment and new perspectives in improving quality preparedness, prevention and smart response needed in achieving the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Research collaboration and transformative solutions on preparedness, smart health system preventive and management solutions is critical needed multifaceted risk factors and emerging epidemics-related impacts in Africa. Hence, leveraging on telemedicine and artificial intelligence innovative and smart healthcare solutions are highlighted in tackling emerging and rising non-communicable disease epidemics, infectious diseases threats/epidemics related child-maternal mortality to health system drawbacks and ageing population dilemma. Also, the need to advance in Africa traditional medicine and digital health communication approaches integration and practice in promoting health information for all in remote Africa communities for national and global health security, ecological development and economic prosperity.
Keywords:
Non-communicable diseases; Epidemics; Preparedness; Health systems; Health informatics
