International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Passed the Age of Puberty: Organizational Networks as a Way to Get Things Done in the Health Field; Comment on “Evaluating Global Health Partnerships: A Case Study of a Gavi HPV Vaccine Application Process in Uganda”

Document Type : Commentary

Author
Patrick Kenis 1, 2
1 Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2 WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
10.15171/ijhpm.2017.51
Abstract
In this commentary I will demonstrate that the case study of Uganda’s Human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine application partnership provides an excellent example of widening our lens by evaluating the successful HP vaccine coverage from a network-centric perspective. That implies that the organizational network is seen as the locus of production and that network theories become indispensable to analyze the situation at hand. The case study is, as said, an excellent example of how this can be done and my comments have to be read as an endorsement and a broadening of the discussion of what Carol Kamya and colleagues have presented. It is demonstrated that an organizational network approach can be considered a serious and mature way in understanding public health issues.
Keywords
Partnership
Organization Network
Social Network Analysis
Evaluation
HPV Vaccine Coverage
Subjects

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International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 6, Issue 11
2017
Pages 677-679

  • Received Date 12 February 2017
  • Revised Date 03 May 2017
  • Accepted Date 20 April 2017
  • First Published Date 01 November 2017
  • Published Date 01 November 2017