Post 9/11 Somalia: the strategic role of health systems strengthening in global security

摘要

Somalia's problems are of substantial global importance in the post 9/11 world. Moreover, 9/11 created the political impetus to support the rebuilding of Somalia. Regional differences in stability have facilitated the implementation of some international long term attempts to strengthen the health system in parts of the country with some degree of success. Such strategic health capacity building is seen as one of the essential cornerstones of recovery in a post conflict country (Collier 2008). As such, there is some hope, given the geographic, linguistic and cultural proximity of Somaliland to the rest of Somalia, that emerging best practice can spread from its foundations in Somaliland into perhaps the most precarious healthcare system in the world.