Risk factors for neonatal mortality in rural areas of Bangladesh served by a large NGO programme.

abstract：:Unlike any other disease so far, the 'exceptional' nature of HIV/AIDS has prompted debate about the necessity, but also the challenges, of regulating practitioner-patient communication around HIV testing. In India, the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) has adopted the guidelines of the World Health Organizatio...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Datye V,Kielmann K,Sheikh K,Deshmukh D,Deshpande S,Porter J,Rangan S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate and compare the cost-effectiveness of selected interventions to reduce mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV in Mexico. METHODS:A spreadsheet-based model was used to examine five scenarios, each estimated using both zidovudine (ZDV) and nevirapine (NVP). Scenarios differ according to coverag...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Rely K,Bertozzi SM,Avila-Figueroa C,Guijarro MT

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2014-16 West Africa Ebola epidemic was a watershed moment for global health. The outbreak galvanized global action around strengthening infectious disease prevention, detection and response capabilities. We examined the nascent landscape of international programmes, initiatives and institutions established in the ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ravi SJ,Snyder MR,Rivers C

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public sector price analyses of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines can provide relevant information to detect ARV procurement procedures that do not obtain competitive market prices. Price benchmarks provide a useful tool for programme managers and policy makers to support such planning and policy measures. The aim of the...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Wirtz VJ,Santa-Ana-Tellez Y,Trout CH,Kaplan WA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1998 Bangladesh began a sector wide approach (SWAp) to the extension of health care to vulnerable groups in the country. The central feature of this approach is the funding of an essential service package (ESP) emphasizing maternal care, certain communicable diseases and child health. This study examines the way in...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ensor T,Dave-Sen P,Ali L,Hossain A,Begum SA,Moral H

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cambodia's healthcare system has seen significant improvements in the last two decades. Despite this, access to quality care remains problematic, particularly for poor rural Cambodians. The government has committed to universal health coverage (UHC) and is reforming the health financing system to align with this goal....

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Asante AD,Ir P,Jacobs B,Supon L,Liverani M,Hayen A,Jan S,Wiseman V

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Irrational use of medicines is a serious problem in China and has been the primary target of China's national essential medicines programme (NEMP). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the NEMP on rational use of medicines in China. METHODS:A nationwide sample of 3 76 700 prescriptions written...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Gong Y,Yang C,Yin X,Zhu M,Yang H,Wang Y,Li Y,Liu L,Dong X,Cao S,Lu Z

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent efforts to prevent post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) in low-income countries have focused on providing women with access to oral misoprostol during home birth. The WHO recommends using lay health workers (LHWs) to administer misoprostol in settings where skilled birth attendants are not available. This review synth...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Smith HJ,Colvin CJ,Richards E,Roberson J,Sharma G,Thapa K,Gülmezoglu AM

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:Given the demonstrated efficacy of vitamin A supplements in reducing childhood mortality, health officials now have to decide whether it would be efficient to target the supplements to high risk children. Decisions about targeting are complex because they depend on a number of factors; the degree of clustering of prev...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Loevinsohn BP,Sutter RW,Costales MO

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of community health workers (CHWs) has been explored as a viable option to provide home health education, counselling and basic health care, notwithstanding their challenges in training and retention. In this manuscript, we review the evidence and discuss how the digitalization affects the CHWs programmes for ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Mishra SR,Lygidakis C,Neupane D,Gyawali B,Uwizihiwe JP,Virani SS,Kallestrup P,Miranda JJ

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:As growth in development assistance for health levels off, development assistance partners must make allocation decisions within tighter budget constraints. Furthermore, with the advent of comprehensive and comparable burden of disease and health financing estimates, empirical evidence can increasingly be used to dire...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Haakenstad A,Templin T,Lim S,Bump JB,Dieleman J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although some methods for eliciting preferences to assist participatory priority setting in health care in developed countries are available, the same is not true for poor communities in developing countries whose preferences are neglected in health policy making. Existing methods grounded on self-interested, monetary...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Font JC,Forns JR,Sato A

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the factors that influence patient choice of medical provider in the three-tier health care system in rural China: village health posts, township health centres, and county (and higher level) hospitals. The model is estimated using a multinomial logit approach applied to a sample of 1877 cases of o...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Yip WC,Wang H,Liu Y

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:Many countries have expanded insurance programmes in an effort to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). We assess a complementary path toward financial risk protection: increased access to technologies that improve health and reduce the risk of large health expenditures. Malawi has provided free HIV treatment since...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Dickerson S,Baranov V,Bor J,Barofsky J

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:The 1993 World Development Report is proving to be an influential document for the development of the health sector policies in developing countries. One important aspect of the Report concerns its proposals for Disability Adjusted Life Years as a measure of health change and hence effectiveness of interventions. This...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Barker C,Green A

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drink-driving is a major cause of global road traffic fatalities, yet few countries have laws that meet international best practices. One possible reason is the alcohol industry's opposition to meaningful policies that are perceived to directly threaten sales. Our primary objectives are to document alcohol industry in...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Hoe C,Taber N,Champagne S,Bachani AM

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of medical students trained in Nepal each year has increased nearly fifty-fold in the last 15 years, primarily through the creation of private medical schools. It is unknown where this expanding cohort of new physicians will ultimately practice. We distributed an anonymous survey to students in their last 2...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Huntington I,Shrestha S,Reich NG,Hagopian A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The burden of diarrhoeal disease remains high in the developing world. Community-based safe drinking water programmes are being promoted as cost-effective interventions that will help reduce this illness burden. However, the effectiveness of these programmes remains under-investigated. The primary argument of this pap...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： deWilde CK,Milman A,Flores Y,Salmerón J,Ray I

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many public hospital physicians in Vietnam offer private service on the side, little is known about the magnitude and nature of the phenomenon so-called dual practice, let alone the dynamics between the public and private health sectors. This study investigates how and to what degree public hospital physician...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Do N,Do YK

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formalized task shifting structures have been used to rapidly scale up antiretroviral service delivery to underserved populations in several countries, and may be a promising mechanism for accomplishing universal health coverage. However, studies evaluating the quality of service delivery through task shifting have la...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Asfaw E,Dominis S,Palen JG,Wong W,Bekele A,Kebede A,Johns B

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Iranian health system, under the banner of family physician (FP) programme, has undergone substantial reforms to change utilization of health services, improve quality of care and enhance affordability. The national implementation of FP initiated in 2005 in parallel with rural health insurance (RHI) in r...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Takian A,Rashidian A,Doshmangir L

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Syrian conflict has caused enormous displacement of a population with a high non-communicable disease (NCD) burden into surrounding countries, overwhelming health systems' NCD care capacity. Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) developed a primary-level NCD programme, serving Syrian refugees and the host population in I...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ansbro É,Garry S,Karir V,Reddy A,Jobanputra K,Fardous T,Sadique Z

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compares the quality of services provided by public and private hospitals in Bangladesh. The premise of the paper was that the quality of hospital services would be contingent on the incentive structure under which these institutions operate. Since private hospitals are not subsidized and depend on income f...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Andaleeb SS

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'One World, One Health' has become a key rallying theme for the integration of public health and animal health priorities, particularly in the governance of pandemic-scale zoonotic infectious disease threats. However, the policy challenges of integrating public health and animal health priorities in the context of tra...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Mwacalimba KK,Green J

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Providing quality emergency obstetric care (EmOC) reduces the risk of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity. There is evidence that over 50% of maternal health programmes that result in improving access to EmOC and reduce maternal mortality have an EmOC training component. The objective was to review the eviden...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ameh CA,Mdegela M,White S,van den Broek N

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Informal payments for health care are a well-known phenomenon in many health care systems around the world. While informal payments could be an important source of health care financing, they have an adverse impact on efficiency and access to care, and are a major impediment to ongoing health care reforms. This paper ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Stepurko T,Pavlova M,Gryga I,Gaál P,Groot W

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00