Global Health

For decades international health has focused on disease treatment, sickness  and lack of health facilities and resources. The negative aspects of health care have been the center of many globally driven campaigns, the solution has been to offer all-encompassing, one-size-fit all solutions  to health issues in communities all over the world. The consultants at  Yarrow Global Consulting see health as something essentially positive, and the local health care partners as the key actors in change, setting the standards for measuring success.

One  of our main areas of expertise is maternal health. Healthy mothers and  healthy children build the foundation of healthy communities. However, maternal health is dominated far too often by the discourse of risk  prevention, pregnancy treated as a sickness and birth as a moment of fear. We want to cherish and respect this life changing experience,  treating motherhood not as a risk, but as a gift.  

In the area of maternal health, as in our other areas of expertise, we will contribute to a change in orientation in Global Health initiatives, from short-term externally driven health service management solutions to sustainable, locally conceptualized initiatives that build capacity, strengthen organizations and place local issues at the core of our  activities.