Overview: health financing reforms in Africa.

abstract：:Previous studies have consistently found an inverse relationship between household-level poverty and health status. However, what is not well understood is whether and how the average economic status at the community level plays a role in the poverty-health relationship. The purpose of this study is to investigate the...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Mahmud Khan M,Hotchkiss DR,Berruti AA,Hutchinson PL

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most settings, a 'public' health service refers to a service which belongs to the state. The term 'private' is used when health care is delivered by individuals and/or institutions not administered by the state. In this paper it is argued that such a distinction, which is based on the institutional or administrativ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Giusti D,Criel B,De Béthune X

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years, Pakistan has had a wide network of Basic Health Units spread across the country, but their utilization by the population in rural and peri-urban areas has remained low. As of 2004, in an attempt to improve the utilization and performance of these public primary healthcare facilities, the government has...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Malik MA,Van de Poel E,Van Doorslaer E

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The connection between HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is widely recognised along with the benefits of linking them at the legal/policy, health systems, and service delivery levels. However, despite increased rhetoric about the need for this three-tiered approach, integrated service delivery h...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Hopkins J,Collins L

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses some conceptual underpinnings of research on gender and quality of health services and demonstrates the importance of training health professionals about how gender influences the health-illness-care process in men and women. It addresses the need to provide opportunities for health providers to u...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Hartigan P

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years there has been a growth in the number of independent health policy analysis institutes in low- and middle-income countries which has occurred in response to the limitation of government analytical capacity and pressures associated with democratization. This study aimed to: (i) investigate the contribut...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Bennett S,Corluka A,Doherty J,Tangcharoensathien V,Patcharanarumol W,Jesani A,Kyabaggu J,Namaganda G,Hussain AM,de-Graft Aikins A

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:User priorities regarding quality care in contexts of medical pluralism are poorly documented. Drawing on group and individual interviews with women, we interrogate ideas of quality maternity care in the context of Nigeria's medical pluralism. We found complex utilization patterns for conventional, complementary and a...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Izugbara CO,Wekesah F

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many developing countries people are expected to contribute to the cost of health care from their own pockets. As a result, people's ability to pay (ATP) for health care, or the affordability of health care, has become a critical policy issue in developing countries, and a particularly urgent issue where households...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Russell S

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The decision-making process to introduce new vaccines into national immunization programmes is often complex, involving many stakeholders who provide technical information, mobilize finance, implement programmes and garner political support. Stakeholders may have different levels of interest, knowledge and motivations...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Wonodi CB,Privor-Dumm L,Aina M,Pate AM,Reis R,Gadhoke P,Levine OS

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination, like most other public health services, relies on a complex package of intervention components, functioning systems and committed actors to achieve universal coverage. Despite significant investment in immunization programmes, national coverage trends have slowed and equity gaps have grown. This paper des...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Soi C,Shearer JC,Budden A,Carnahan E,Salisbury N,Asiimwe G,Chilundo B,Sarma H,Gimbel S,Simuyemba M,Uddin J,Masiye F,Kamya M,Hozumi D,Rajaratnam JK,Lim SS

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistently low quality and inadequacy of health services provided in public facilities has made the private sector an unavoidable choice for consumers of health care in Nigeria. Ineffective state regulation, however, has meant little control over the clinical activities of private sector providers while the pric...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ogunbekun I,Ogunbekun A,Orobaton N

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing interest in the prospects for managed market reforms in developing countries, stimulated by current reforms and policy debates in developed countries, and by perceptions of widespread public sector inefficiency in many countries. This review examines the prospects for such reforms in a developing c...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Broomberg J

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:There is an immense need for scaling-up neuropsychiatric care in low-income countries. Contextualized cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) provide relevant information for local policies. The aim of this study is to perform a contextualized CEA of neuropsychiatric interventions in Ethiopia and to illustrate ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Strand KB,Chisholm D,Fekadu A,Johansson KA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One billion children live in war-affected regions of the world. We conducted the first cost-effectiveness analysis of an intervention for war-affected youth in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as a broader cost analysis. METHODS:The Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI) is a behavioural treatment for reducing funct...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： McBain RK,Salhi C,Hann K,Salomon JA,Kim JJ,Betancourt TS

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Between 25 and 44% of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) occurs through breastfeeding. As a result, feeding guidelines for infants of HIV-infected mothers are being formulated in many resource-poor countries. The impact of introducing these guidelines on mothers' ac...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Omari AA,Luo C,Kankasa C,Bhat GJ,Bunn J

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) has been used to estimate the impact of scaling up intervention coverage on undernutrition and mortality. Evidence for the model is largely based on efficacy trials, raising concerns of applicability to large-scale contexts. We modelled the impact of scaling up health programs in India betw...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Alderman H,Nguyen PH,Menon P

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Mauritania, obstetrical risk insurance (ORI) has been progressively implemented at the health district level since 2002 and was available in 25% of public healthcare facilities in 2015. The ORI scheme is based on pre-payment scheme principles and focuses on increasing the quality of and access to both maternal and ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ravit M,Ravalihasy A,Audibert M,Ridde V,Bonnet E,Raffalli B,Roy FA,N'Landu A,Dumont A

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are a growing cause of mortality and morbidity in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC). While hypertension (HTN), a leading risk factor for CVD, can be easily managed with widely available medicines, there is a huge gap in treatment for HTN in many LMIC. One such c...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Murphy A,Jakab M,McKee M,Richardson E

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:This study describes the post-diagnosis care-seeking costs incurred by people living with TB and/or HIV and their households, in order to identify the potential benefits of integrated care. Methods:We conducted a cross-sectional study with 454 participants with TB or HIV or both in public primary health car...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Mudzengi D,Sweeney S,Hippner P,Kufa T,Fielding K,Grant AD,Churchyard G,Vassall A

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the millions of Community Health Workers (CHWs) serving their communities across the world, there are approximately twice as many female CHWs as there are male. Hiring women has in many cases become an ethical expectation, in part because working as a CHW is often seen as empowering the CHW herself to enact positiv...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Closser S,Napier H,Maes K,Abesha R,Gebremariam H,Backe G,Fossett S,Tesfaye Y

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several countries in sub-Saharan Africa have recently adopted policies that remove user fees for facility-based delivery services. There is little rigorous evidence of the impact of these policies on utilization of delivery services and no evaluations have examined effects on neonatal mortality rates (NMR). ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： McKinnon B,Harper S,Kaufman JS,Bergevin Y

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The end of the Cold War brought with it opportunities to resolve a number of conflicts around the world, including those in Angola, Cambodia, El Salvador and Mozambique. International political efforts to negotiate peace in these countries were accompanied by significant aid programmes ostensibly designed to redress t...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Lanjouw S,Macrae J,Zwi AB

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines healthcare utilization behaviour in Sri Lanka with special emphasis on the choice between costly private and free public healthcare services. We use a data set that combines nationwide household survey data and district level healthcare supply data. Our findings suggest that even with universal pub...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Pallegedara A,Grimm M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring and tracking the quality of healthcare is a critical part of improving service delivery, clinic efficiency and health outcomes. However, no standardized or widely accepted tool exists to assess the quality of clinic-based family planning services in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this lit...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Sprockett A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examine socio-economic status (SES) and geographic differences in willingness of respondents to pay for community-based health insurance (CBHI). METHODS:The study took place in Anambra and Enugu states, south-east Nigeria. It involved a rural, an urban and a semi-urban community in each of the two states....

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Onwujekwe O,Okereke E,Onoka C,Uzochukwu B,Kirigia J,Petu A

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protecting households from high out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for health care is an important health system goal. High OOP payments can push households into poverty and make them vulnerable to catastrophic health expenditures. This study, based in India, aims to: (a) estimate OOP payments for health and related impover...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Shahrawat R,Rao KD

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVES We describe modern and alternative health services use in terminal illness of adults, and assess whether utilization patterns of TB/AIDS patients are distinct from those of patients suffering from other illnesses. METHODS Data are from post-mortem interviews with close relatives or caretakers of the decease...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Reniers G,Tesfai R

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been increased interest in and experimentation with demand-side mechanisms such as the use of vouchers that place purchasing power in the hands of targeted consumers to improve the uptake of healthcare services in low-income settings. A key measure of the success of such interventions is the extent to which ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Kanya L,Obare F,Warren C,Abuya T,Askew I,Bellows B

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In August 2003, the Ghanaian Government made history by implementing the first National Health Insurance System (NHIS) in sub-Saharan Africa. Within 2 years, over one-third of the country had voluntarily enrolled in the NHIS. To discourage households from selectively enrolling their sickest (high-risk) members, the NH...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Rajkotia Y,Frick K

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two assumptions underpin much of the literature that has examined the links between HIV/AIDS and security: (1) that HIV/AIDS is now firmly established as an international security issue; and (2) that Resolution 1308, adopted by the UN Security Council in July 2000, was the decisive moment in the securitization process...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Rushton S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00