Toward a grounded theory of why some immunization programmes in sub-Saharan Africa are more successful than others: a descriptive and exploratory assessment in six countries.

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：: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：:Little is understood about the feasibility and acceptability of primary care-based models of task-sharing care for people with severe mental disorders (SMDs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). A participatory planning approach was adopted in preparation for the transition from hospital-delivered psychiatric ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Mayston R,Alem A,Habtamu A,Shibre T,Fekadu A,Hanlon C

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:Afghanistan has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world. We assess the health outcomes and cost-effectiveness of strategies to improve the safety of pregnancy and childbirth in Afghanistan. METHODS:Using national and sub-national data, we adapted a previously validated model that simulat...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Carvalho N,Salehi AS,Goldie SJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ensuring financial access to health services is a critical challenge for poor countries if they are to reach the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This article examines the case of Rwanda, a country which has championed innovative health care financing policies. Between 2000 and 2007, Rwanda has improved fin...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Sekabaraga C,Diop F,Soucat A

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：: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：:Reproduction is a dual commitment, but so often in much of the world, it is seen as wholly the woman's responsibility. She bears the burden not only of pregnancy and childbirth but also the threats from excessive child bearing, some responsibility for contraception, infertility investigation and often undiagnosed sexu...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Mbizvo MT,Bassett MT

更新日期：1996-03-01 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

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：:Generic prescribing and generic substitution are mechanisms for reducing the cost of drugs. The purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which generic prescribing by private medical practitioners and generic substitution by private pharmacists is practised in South Africa and to estimate the potential savings...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Karim SS,Pillai G,Ziqubu-Page TT,Cassimjee MH,Morar MS

更新日期：1996-06-01 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

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：Background:Quality improvement (QI) methods engage stakeholders in identifying problems, creating strategies called change ideas to address those problems, testing those change ideas and scaling them up where successful. These methods have rarely been used at the community level in low-income country settings. Here we ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Tancred T,Mandu R,Hanson C,Okuga M,Manzi F,Peterson S,Schellenberg J,Waiswa P,Marchant T,EQUIP Study Team .

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Attention to global health security governance is more important now than ever before. Scientists predict that a possible influenza pandemic could affect 1.5 billion people, cause up to 150 million deaths and leave US$3 trillion in economic damages. A public health emergency in one country is now only hours ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Hoffman SJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last 20 years Lao People's Democratic Republic has successfully developed and adopted some 30 health policies, strategies, decrees and laws in the field of health. Still, the implementation process remains arduous. This article aims at discussing challenges of health policy development and effective impleme...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Jönsson K,Phoummalaysith B,Wahlström R,Tomson G

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the existing health financing literature, males are typically categorized as the household's decision-makers. While this view accurately reflects many local sociocultural realities, approximately a quarter of sub-Saharan African households are now headed by females. In light of various efforts to expand health ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Oraro T,Ngube N,Atohmbom GY,Srivastava S,Wyss K

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Coverage of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) in sub-Saharan Africa is still low despite their proven efficacy, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. Delivery systems for ITNs have been hotly debated, but there has been no structured approach to assessing their relative effectiveness. This paper aims to: pro...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Webster J,Hill J,Lines J,Hanson K

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:There is increasing interest among health policymakers, planners and donors in how corruption affects health care access and outcomes, and what can be done to combat corruption in the health sector. Efforts to explain the risk of abuse of entrusted power for private gain have examined the links between corruption and ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Vian T

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Financial protection should be the principal objective of any health system. Commonly used indicators for financial protection are out-of-pocket (OOP) payments as a share of total health expenditure and the amount of households driven into poverty by catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs). In the last decade, OOP hea...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Yardim MS,Cilingiroglu N,Yardim N

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：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 health profile of Bangladesh has improved remarkably, yet gaps in delivering quality health care remain. In response to the need for evidence to quantify resources for providing health services in Bangladesh, this study estimates unit costs of providing the essential services package (ESP) in the not-for-profit se...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Zeng W,Halasa YA,Cros M,Akhter H,Nandakumar AK,Shepard DS

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores the nature and type of policy transfer promoted by global health partnerships to facilitate access to medication in Cameroon and the associated implementation challenges. Using concepts from policy transfer, multi-level governance and the politics of scale, the paper conceptualizes the social space...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ngoasong MZ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00