Improving access to hospital care for the poor: comparative analysis of four health equity funds in Cambodia.

abstract：:Past efforts to promote family planning in Pakistan have been disappointing, but between 1990-91 and 2000-01 contraceptive use has more than doubled. This rise has coincided with a concerted effort on the part of the Pakistani government to increase access to contraceptive services, particularly in rural areas. The La...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Douthwaite M,Ward P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Similar to many other countries, Chile is facing the challenges of rapid ageing and the increase in long-term care (LTC) needs for this population. Implementation of LTC systems has been the response to these challenges in other countries, however, Chile still lacks a strategy for addressing LTC needs. This article ad...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Villalobos Dintrans P

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Malaria is an important cause of mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Use of insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) is an important preventive intervention. Selection of the best mechanisms for distribution and promotion of ITNs to vulnerable populations is an important strategic issue. METHODS:Comm...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Brentlinger PE,Correia MA,Chinhacata FS,Gimbel-Sherr KH,Stubbs B,Mercer MA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A decade after the first International Conference on Safe Motherhood, maternal mortality remains very high in most West African countries, even in capital cities. The detection of high risk pregnancies, known as the risk approach, during antenatal consultations has been the basis of most maternal and child health prog...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Prual A,Toure A,Huguet D,Laurent Y

更新日期：2000-03-01 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 low- and middle-income countries, patients may travel abroad to seek better health services or treatments that are not available at home, especially in regions where great disparities exist between the standard of care in neighbouring countries. While awareness of South-South medical travels has increased, only a f...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Liverani M,Ir P,Jacobs B,Asante A,Jan S,Leang S,Man N,Hayen A,Wiseman V

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:This paper investigates the effect of health-related expenditure on household welfare in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, all of which have undertaken major health sector reform. Two methodologies are used: (i) the incidence and intensity of 'catastrophic' health care expenditure, and (i...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Bredenkamp C,Mendola M,Gragnolati M

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Performance-Based Financing (PBF) is a promising approach to improve health system performance in developing countries, but there are concerns that it may inadequately address inequalities in access to care. Incentives for reaching the poor may prove beneficial, but evidence remains limited. We evaluated a system of t...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Flink IJ,Ziebe R,Vagaï D,van de Looij F,van 't Riet H,Houweling TA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injury is a growing public health concern worldwide. Since severe injuries require urgent treatment, involving smooth, timely patient referral between facilities, strengthening of the referral system would reduce injury mortality. Smooth referral consists of identification of severe cases, organization of transportati...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Nakahara S,Saint S,Sann S,Ichikawa M,Kimura A,Eng L,Yoshida K

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Chile, workers are mandated to choose either public or private health insurance coverage. Although private insurance premiums depend on health risk, public insurance premiums are solely linked to income. This structure implies that individuals with higher health risks may tend to avoid private insurance, leaving th...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Pardo C,Schott W

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development assistance for health (DAH) has increased substantially in recent years and is seen as important to the improvement of health and health systems in developing countries. As a result, there has been increasing interest in tracking and understanding these resource flows from the global health community. A nu...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Grépin KA,Leach-Kemon K,Schneider M,Sridhar D

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scarce evidence exists on the features, determinants and implications of physicians' dual practice, especially in resource-poor settings. This study considered dual practice patterns in three African cities and the respective markets for physician services, with the objective of understanding the influence of local de...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Russo G,McPake B,Fronteira I,Ferrinho P

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Vietnam, as in many other countries, tuberculosis (TB) control has long been organized exclusively within the public health-care system. However, recently the private health-care sector has become more important and private health-care providers currently have a role in TB care delivery in Vietnam. Through a retros...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Lönnroth K,Thuong LM,Linh PD,Diwan VK

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：: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：:The potential for academic research institutions to facilitate knowledge exchange and influence evidence-informed decision-making has been gaining ground. Schools of public health (SPHs) may play a key knowledge brokering role-serving as agencies of and for development. Understanding academic-policymaker networks can ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Jessani NS,Boulay MG,Bennett SC

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The efficacy of low- and middle-income countries’ (LMIC) national drug policies in managing antiretroviral (ARV) pharmaceutical prices is not well understood. Though ARV drug prices have been declining in LMIC over the past decade, little research has been done on the role of their national drug policies. Th...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Liu Y,Galárraga O

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like many other developing countries, Burkina Faso has been exploring how community resources can be tapped to co-finance health services. Although revenue generation is important for the viability of health services, effects on utilization and on equity of access to health care must also be considered. The authors pr...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Sauerborn R,Nougtara A,Latimer E

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low contract renewal rates have been identified as one of the challenges facing the development of community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes. This article uses longitudinal household survey data gathered in 2012 and 2013 to examine dropout in the case of Ethiopia's pilot CBHI scheme. We treat dropout as a functi...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Mebratie AD,Sparrow R,Yilma Z,Alemu G,Bedi AS

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distributional economic evaluation estimates the value for money of health interventions in terms of population health and health equity impacts. When applied to interventions delivered at the population and health system-level interventions (PSIs) instead of clinical interventions, additional practical and methodolog...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Love-Koh J,Mirelman A,Suhrcke M

更新日期：2020-12-31 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：:Realist evaluation furnishes valuable insight to public health practitioners and policy makers about how and why interventions work or don't work. Moving beyond binary measures of success or failure, it provides a systematic approach to understanding what goes on in the 'Black Box' and how implementation decisions in ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Adams A,Sedalia S,McNab S,Sarker M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of why some immunization programmes in sub-Saharan Africa are more successful than others is an intriguing one, but not one that is frequently raised or investigated. Borrowing techniques from both performance benchmarking and positive deviance inquiry, we explored this question in six countries. We first...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Naimoli JF,Challa S,Schneidman M,Kostermans K

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article aims to describe the inappropriate use of medicines in the Brazilian urban population and to identify associated factors. We conducted a data analysis of a household survey carried out in Brazil in 2013-14. The sampling plan was done by clusters with representativeness of the urban population and large re...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Luiza VL,Mendes LVP,Tavares NUL,Bertoldi AD,Fontanella AT,Oliveira MA,Campos MR,PNAUM Group .

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:As in many developing countries, lack of reliable data and grossly inadequate appreciation and use of available information in planning and management of health services were two main weaknesses of the health information systems in Malawi. Malawi began strengthening its health management information system with an ana...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Chaulagai CN,Moyo CM,Koot J,Moyo HB,Sambakunsi TC,Khunga FM,Naphini PD

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most government health facilities in Cambodia perform poorly, due to lack of funds, inadequate management and inefficient use of resources, but mostly due to poor motivation of staff. This paper describes contracting as a possible tool for Ministries of Health to improve health service delivery more rapidly than the m...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Soeters R,Griffiths F

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decentralization of the health care system in China has led to an increasing need for income generation at all operational levels, both for curative services and for public health programmes. In general, people have accepted the costs of curative services, although the impact of charges on health-seeking behaviour has...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Yu D,Manderson L,Yuan L,Wei W,He H,Chen Y

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00