Influencing policy change: the experience of health think tanks in low- and middle-income countries.

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：: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：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：: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：:Neonatal deaths account for about half of all deaths among children under 5 years of age in Bangladesh, making prevention a major priority. This paper reports on a study of neonatal deaths in 12 areas of Bangladesh served by a large NGO programme, which had high coverage of reproductive health outreach services and re...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Mercer A,Haseen F,Huq NL,Uddin N,Hossain Khan M,Larson CP

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Adequate supervision is critical to maintain the performance of health workers who provide essential maternal and child health services in low-resource areas. Supportive supervision emphasizing problem-solving, skill development and mentorship has been shown to improve the motivation and effectiveness of health worker...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Bellerose M,Alva S,Magalona S,Awoonor-Williams K,Sacks E

更新日期：2020-12-22 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether an expansion in private sector contraceptive supply is associated with increased socio-economic inequality in the modern contraceptive prevalence rate (MCPR inequality). METHODS:Multiple rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys data were analysed for five countries that experienced an in...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Agha S,Do M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

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：: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：: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：BACKGROUND:Lebanon, characterized by a free-market health care system, has one of the highest reported per capita rates of cardiac catheterization facilities and coronary angiographies in the world. The aim of this study is to evaluate the appropriateness of performance of coronary angiography procedures in Lebanon. M...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Sibai AM,Tohme RA,Saade GA,Ghanem G,Alam S,Lebanese Interventional Coronary Registry Working Group (LICOR).

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：: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：:At the start of the United Nations International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade in the 1980s, guinea worm disease was targeted as the major indicator of the success of the Decade's efforts to promote safe water. By the late 1980s, most of the guinea worm endemic countries in Africa and South Asia had esta...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Brieger WR,Otusanya S,Adeniyi JD,Tijani J,Banjoko M

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The private sector plays a major role in the delivery of health care in South Africa. Over the past two decades, the quality and equity of such provision has been questioned internationally. A study was conducted in Gauteng Province to explore these issues, using care for sexually transmitted disease (STD) as a case s...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Chabikuli N,Schneider H,Blaauw D,Zwi AB,Brugha R

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：: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

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：: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