Why Strong Health Systems Are Essential to Global Growth

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For companies, governments, and civil society, investing in frontline health systems is not charity it is infrastructure.

When they are under-resourced, communities lose trust, service delivery breaks down, and the very markets that companies seek to serve become harder to reach.

Investments in healthcare worker training, infrastructure upgrades, and health management improvements led to a 12.9 percentage point increase in skilled birth attendance.

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