Humanitarian actions a decisive support for territories in conflict in the MENA region, and for the resilience of their failing health systems

Abstract

In the MENA region, humanitarian actions constitute a decisive backing for the health systems of the member states, especially for countries facing geopolitical instability and violent conflict tensions, causing flows of refugees, illegitimate migration, excessive transit and internal displacement of populations. In order to respond to international social solidarity needs in times of crisis and to respect at the time requirements of donors in terms of the effectiveness and efficiency of humanitarian assistance programs, this article seeks to evaluate the performance of health systems in the (MENA) region supported by humanitarian grants.

In order to give a scientific credibility to this research, a positivist logical paradigm with a deductive posture has been chosen, and this time, relying on a non-parametric operational research method based on data envelopment analysis (DEA), the results obtained according to input orientation indicate the aggravation of managerial and scale problems for a large number of health systems (MENA). For example: the efficient Syrian health system on the VRS border, also suffers from poor distribution of medical humanitarian grants due to its non-optimal size (SE=74,6%); besides, the Iraqi health system also suffers from a poor distribution of medical resources between governorates (Vrste=89,09%) and (SE=83,44%) etc;