Review of corruption in the health sector: theory, methods and interventions.

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：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：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：: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：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：Background:Access to quality obstetric care is considered essential to reducing maternal and new-born mortality. We evaluated the effect of the introduction of a multifaceted voluntary health insurance programme on hospital deliveries in rural Nigeria. Methods:We used an interrupted time-series design, including a con...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Brals D,Aderibigbe SA,Wit FW,van Ophem JCM,van der List M,Osagbemi GK,Hendriks ME,Akande TM,Boele van Hensbroek M,Schultsz C

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：OBJECTIVES:This study examined whether outpatient haemodialysis providers changed their treatment practices with the establishment of an outpatient dialysis global budget (ODGB) through analysing the outpatient visits and medication received by those patients. METHODS:A sample of 4668 observations (patient year) of 13...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Chang RE,Tsai YH,Myrtle RC

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Community-based health insurance (CBI) is a common mechanism to generate financial resources for health care in developing countries. We review for the first time provider payment methods used in CBI in developing countries and their impact on CBI performance. METHODS:We conducted a systematic review of the...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Robyn PJ,Sauerborn R,Bärnighausen T

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND Post-communist health care reforms and the break-up of Czechoslovakia have been studied from various perspectives, but little research has addressed the impact on health system performance. This paper investigates the quality and performance of the Slovak and Czech health systems before and after 1989, incl...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Kossarova L,Holland W,Mossialos E

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper investigates the key factors associated with the demand for Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI), which was established in 2007 and aims to cover all Chinese urban residents. Two waves of longitudinal household survey data are used, and a three-level random-intercept logit model is used for the an...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Chen G,Yan X

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The redistributive effects of a social insurance programme are determined by how the programme is paid for-who pays and how much do they pay?-and how the benefits are distributed. As a result, the redistributive effects of a social health insurance programme should be evaluated on the basis of its net benefit-the diff...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Huang N,Yip W,Chou YJ,Wang PJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:In Nepal, women residing in rural areas tend to bypass local birth centres and deliver at urban hospitals, despite the availability of obstetric care in these centres. This study investigated the incidence of bypassing, characteristics of bypassers and their reasons for bypassing the birth centres. METHODS:...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Karkee R,Lee AH,Binns CW

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence-informed decisions can strengthen health systems. Literature suggests that engaging policymakers and other stakeholders in research priority-setting exercises increases the likelihood of the utilization of research evidence by policymakers. To our knowledge, there has been no previous priority-setting exercis...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： El-Jardali F,Makhoul J,Jamal D,Ranson MK,Kronfol NM,Tchaghchagian V

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:National Health Accounts (NHA) are an important tool to demonstrate how a country's health resources are spent, on what services, and who pays for them. NHA are used by policy-makers for monitoring health expenditure patterns; policy instruments to re-orientate the pattern can then be further introduced. The National ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Tangcharoensathien V,Laixuthai A,Vasavit J,Tantigate NA,Prajuabmoh-Ruffolo W,Vimolkit D,Lertiendumrong J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper provides guidance on how to do a stakeholder analysis, whether the aim is to conduct a policy analysis, predict policy development, implement a specific policy or project, or obtain an organizational advantage in one's dealings with other stakeholders. Using lessons learned from an analysis of alcohol polic...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Varvasovszky Z,Brugha R

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of nurse migration, experts view trade agreements as either vehicles for facilitating migration or as contributing to brain-drain phenomena. Using a case study design, this study explored the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the development of Mexican nursing. Drawing result...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Squires A

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article assesses whether social franchising of tuberculosis (TB) services in Myanmar has succeeded in providing quality treatment while ensuring equity in access and financial protection for poor patients. Newly diagnosed TB patients receiving treatment from private general practitioners (GPs) belonging to the fr...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Lönnroth K,Aung T,Maung W,Kluge H,Uplekar M

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Integrating mental health with general medical care can increase access to mental health services, but requires helping generalists acquire a range of unfamiliar knowledge and master potentially complex diagnostic and treatment processes. METHOD:We describe a model for integrating complex specialty care wit...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Wissow LS,Tegegn T,Asheber K,McNabb M,Weldegebreal T,Jerene D,Ruff A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The burden of disease due to injuries has elicited virtually no public health response in the countries of central and eastern Europe, even though injuries have long been a much greater problem in the east of Europe than in the west, with children especially affected. This paper seeks to identify factors that have inh...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： McKee M,Zwi A,Koupilova I,Sethi D,Leon D

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the number of direct Ebola-related deaths from the 2013 to 2016 West African Ebola outbreak has been quantified, the number of indirect deaths, resulting from decreased utilization of routine health services, remains unknown. Such information is a key ingredient of health system resilience, essential for adeq...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Sochas L,Channon AA,Nam S

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2014, the Indonesian government passed the Mental Health Act (MHA) to address the country's complex mental health situation. The implementation of the MHA has been slow, and little is known about how the MHA is perceived by mental healthcare providers within local settings. This study aimed to obtain insight into p...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Bikker AP,Lesmana CBJ,Tiliopoulos N

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Health facilities assessments are an essential instrument for health system strengthening in low- and middle-income countries. These assessments are used to conduct health facility censuses to assess the capacity of the health system to deliver health care and to identify gaps in the coverage of health ser...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Nickerson JW,Adams O,Attaran A,Hatcher-Roberts J,Tugwell P

更新日期：2015-06-01 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：: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：:Reducing maternal mortality and providing universal access to reproductive health in resource poor settings has been severely constrained by a shortage of health workers required to deliver interventions. The aim of this article is to determine evidence to optimize health worker roles through task shifting/sharing to ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Dawson AJ,Buchan J,Duffield C,Homer CS,Wijewardena K

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidence suggests that early life investments in health are associated with improved human capital and economic outcomes. Various recent global studies have simulated the expected economic returns from alternative packages of interventions in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). However, v...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Maitra C,Hodge A,Jimenez Soto E

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the concept of gender mainstreaming has gained acceptance among many national and international development organizations, many obstacles are faced in translating the concept into tangible improvements in the health and well-being of women and men. This paper presents two qualitative case studies, one from Kenya...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Elsey H,Kilonzo N,Tolhurst R,Molyneux C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health policy and systems research (HPSR) is vital to guiding global institutions, funders, policymakers, activists and implementers in developing and enacting strategies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. We undertook a multi-stage participatory process to identify priority research questions relevant to i...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Scott K,Jessani N,Qiu M,Bennett S

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00