Eliciting policymakers' and stakeholders' opinions to help shape health system research priorities in the Middle East and North Africa region.

abstract：:In Papua New Guinea, investment by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) has played an important role in scaling up the response to HIV and tuberculosis (TB). As part of a series of case studies on how Global Fund-supported programmes interact with national health systems, we assess...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Rudge JW,Phuanakoonon S,Nema KH,Mounier-Jack S,Coker R

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Health insurance premium exemptions for pregnant women are a strategy to increase coverage of maternal health services in sub-Saharan countries. We examine health insurance registration among pregnant women before or after the introduction of a premium exemption, and test whether registration increases utili...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Frimpong JA,Helleringer S,Awoonor-Williams JK,Aguilar T,Phillips JF,Yeji F

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：: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：:Almost all sub-Saharan countries have adopted cost-reduction policies to facilitate access to health care. However, several studies underline the reimbursement delays experienced by health facilities, which lead to deficient implementation of these policies. In April 2016, for its free care policy, Burkina Faso shifte...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Meda IB,Kouanda S,Dumont A,Ridde V

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that substantial reductions in maternal mortality and severe morbidity are impossible to achieve without an effective referral system for complicated cases. Early detection and referral to higher levels of care might also substantially reduce neonatal deaths due to the complications of childbirth...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Murray SF,Davies S,Phiri RK,Ahmed Y

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：: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：:Advocacy, policy, research and intervention efforts against childhood pneumonia have lagged behind other health issues, including malaria, measles and tuberculosis. Accelerating progress on the issue began in 2008, following decades of efforts by individuals and organizations to address the leading cause of childhood ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Berlan D

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:Zambia has one of the most liberal abortion laws in sub-Saharan Africa. However, rates of unsafe abortion remain high with negative health and economic consequences. Little is known about the economic burden on women of abortion care-seeking in low income countries. The majority of studies focus on direct costs (e.g. ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Leone T,Coast E,Parmar D,Vwalika B

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:The collection of accurate maternal outcome data enables causes of morbidity and mortality to be identified, which in turn permits interventions to be targeted appropriately. It also allows estimates to be made about the importance of various indicators in predicting birth outcome. These indicators can then be compare...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Allotey PA,Reidpath D

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：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：:Policy entrepreneurs are individuals who attempt to influence the policy process and its outcomes through their opportunistic or incremental actions. Their success in the policy-making process has been associated with the convergence of four factors: behavioural traits; institutional factors; network position and poli...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Shearer JC

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Integration of health services has been pursued worldwide. Diversity in integration approaches and in the contexts in which integrated programmes operate, however, hinders comparative analysis of care integration in both high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This study evaluates an...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Liang LL

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：: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：: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：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：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：: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：: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：BACKGROUND:Suicide in Sri Lanka is a major public health problem and in 1995 the country had one of the highest rates of suicide worldwide. Since then reductions in overall suicide rates have been largely attributed to efforts to regulate a range of pesticides. The evolution, context, events and implementation of the k...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Pearson M,Zwi AB,Buckley NA,Manuweera G,Fernando R,Dawson AH,McDuie-Ra D

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Task-shifting the provision of pregnancy tests to community health workers (CHWs) in low-resource settings has the potential to reach significantly more underserved women at risk of pregnancy with essential reproductive health services. This study assessed whether an intervention to supply CHWs with home pregnancy tes...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Comfort AB,Juras RC,Bradley SEK,Ranjalahy Rasolofomanana J,Noeliarivelo Ranjalahy A,Harper CC

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The financial remuneration of health workers (HWs) is a key concern to address human resources for health challenges. In low-income settings, the exploration of the sources of income available to HWs, their determinants and the livelihoods strategies that those remunerations entail are essential to gain a better under...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Bertone MP,Lurton G,Mutombo PB

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is a major global health problem. It is a major cause of mortality, morbidity and disability in developed and increasingly in less developed countries. Worldwide, it is the leading cause of healthy years lost in late adulthood, and evidence indicates that the burden of stroke, particularly in terms of morbidity...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Kalache A,Aboderin I

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00