An approach to addressing governance from a health system framework perspective

Table 2 Summary of governance elements as addressed in selected contemporary health literature

Governance element	Reference
	WHO 2007	Islam 2007	Siddiqi et al. 2009	Lewis & Pettersson 2009
Accountability	●	●	●	●
Effectiveness/efficiency			●
Equity			●
Ethics			●
Existence of standards		○		●
Incentives	○			●
Information/Intelligence	●	●	●	●
Participation/collaboration	●	●	●
Policy/System Design	●	●
Regulation	●	●
Responsiveness		●	●
Rule of Law			●
Transparency	○	○	●	○
Vision/Direction	○		●

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