Cooperating to improve healthcare in Arab countries Davide Maged, Rita Maria Ferrelli, Alessandra Zorayan, Maria Luisa Di Pietro, Antonio Giulio De Belvis, Walter Ricciardi, Stefania Boccia, Adele Anna Teleman and Maurizio Sanguinetti

摘要

This brief note presents a few examples of successful health collaboration to improvehealthcare in Arab countries. Considerable growth has been noticed in the past years inthe health sector of the Middle East and North Africa region countries due to the needto address health service capacity gaps and improve the quality of health infrastructure.The rising population coupled with the aging demographic is expected to drivehealthcare demand in the Arab region, augmenting its demand. In order to meet thisdemand, a lot of progress within the public sector has been made and several initiativeshave taken place to create awareness of the most common diseases affecting the region.Among the steps undertaken in order to face the shortage of experience of medicalpersonnel and the rising cost of the delivery of health services, the most noticeableones relate to major investments within the realm of healthcare provision. However,country-specific drivers of disease burden should inform financial and research investments,prevention efforts, health policies, and health system improvement initiatives forall countries along the development continuum. Moreover, health gains will need to besustained by supporting interventions on income, education, and fertility as drivers ofhealth improvement.