Public Health Leadership in Fragile States: Lessons from South Sudan’s Health System

Joseph Cirilo Deng Majak and Bior Daniel Dhieu
Additional contact information
Joseph Cirilo Deng Majak: Diversity Bridge Consulting Firm
Bior Daniel Dhieu: Diversity Bridge Consulting Firm

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2025, vol. 12, issue 15, 398-409

Abstract: This paper analyses the significant role of public health leadership in developing a resilient and effective healthcare system in fragile state, historical and political factors affecting health governance. The protracted war in South Sudan has negatively affected infrastructure, institution, and logistics for health commodities as well as resources availability; hence leading to worst health outcome indicators in the world. Nevertheless, South Sudan has achieved number of millstones such as eradication of guanine worms and controlling cholera outbreak. All these are attributed to strong leadership guiding the public health policy. The paper underscores the importance of decentralization of leadership-involving local healthcare providers and communities in administration and enforces accountability mechanisms. Similarly, the paper explores strategies to strengthen health governance such as decentralization, capacity building, and community engagement. In conclusion, good governance and specific reforms of the health agenda can make positive changes and build a resilient health care system that can deliver essential health care services despite all challenges that may exist

Date: 2025
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrsi/d ... issue-15/398-409.pdf (application/pdf)
https://rsisinternational.org/journals/ijrsi/artic ... udans-health-system/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bjc:journl:v:12:y:2025:i:15:p:398-409

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation is currently edited by Dr. Renu Malsaria

More articles in International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation from International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dr. Renu Malsaria ().