When 'solutions of yesterday become problems of today': crisis-ridden decision making in a complex adaptive system (CAS)--the Additional Duty Hours Allowance in Ghana.

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：: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：:The individual impacts of several components of family planning service quality on contraceptive use have been studied, but the influence of a composite measure synthesizing these components has not been often investigated. We (1) develop a composite score for family planning service quality based on health facility d...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Fruhauf T,Zimmerman L,Kibira SPS,Makumbi F,Gichangi P,Shiferaw S,Seme A,Guiella G,Tsui A

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：: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：:Approximately 900 000 newborn children die every year in India, accounting for 28% of neonatal deaths globally. In 2011, India introduced a home-based newborn care (HBNC) package to be delivered by community health workers across rural areas. We estimate the disease and economic burden that could be averted by scaling...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Nandi A,Colson AR,Verma A,Megiddo I,Ashok A,Laxminarayan R

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The private sector is the predominant provider of health care in Brazil, particularly for inpatient services, and financing is a mix of public (through a prospective reimbursement system) and private. Roughly a quarter of the population has private insurance coverage, reflecting rapid growth in the past decade fuelled...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Lewis MA,Medici AC

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Informal payments for health care are a well-known phenomenon in many health care systems around the world. While informal payments could be an important source of health care financing, they have an adverse impact on efficiency and access to care, and are a major impediment to ongoing health care reforms. This paper ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Stepurko T,Pavlova M,Gryga I,Gaál P,Groot W

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past 10 years, donors have recognized the need for major reforms to achieve sustainable development. Using non-project assistance they have attempted to leverage reforms by offering financing conditioned on the enactment of reform. The experience of USAID's health reform programmes in Niger and Nigeria sugg...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Foltz AM

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years, Pakistan has had a wide network of Basic Health Units spread across the country, but their utilization by the population in rural and peri-urban areas has remained low. As of 2004, in an attempt to improve the utilization and performance of these public primary healthcare facilities, the government has...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Malik MA,Van de Poel E,Van Doorslaer E

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：: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：:Mental disorders account for a significant and growing proportion of the global burden of disease and yet remain a low priority for public financing in health systems globally. In many low-income countries, formal mental health services are paid for directly by patients out-of-pocket and in middle-income countries und...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Dixon A,McDaid D,Knapp M,Curran C

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2006, in response to the high maternal mortality, driven largely by unsafe abortions, the government of Ghana, in partnership with other organizations, launched the reducing maternal mortality and morbidity (R3M) programme in seven districts in Greater Accra, Ashanti and Eastern, to improve comprehensive abortion c...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Sundaram A,Juarez F,Ahiadeke C,Bankole A,Blades N

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Health-care financing should be equitable. In many developing countries such as Kenya, changes to health-care financing systems are being implemented as a means of providing equitable access to health care with the aim of attaining universal coverage. Vertical equity means that people of dissimilar ability t...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Munge K,Briggs AH

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：:This paper seeks to examine barriers faced by members of a community-based insurance (CBI) scheme, which is targeted at poor women and their families, in accessing scheme benefits. CBI schemes have been developed and promoted as mechanisms to offer protection to poor families from the risks of ill-health, death and lo...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Sinha T,Ranson MK,Chatterjee M,Acharya A,Mills AJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:In Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa, health care financing is progressive overall. However, out-of-pocket payments and health insurance for the informal sector are regressive. The distribution of health care benefits is generally pro-rich. This paper explores the factors influencing these distributions in the three co...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Macha J,Harris B,Garshong B,Ataguba JE,Akazili J,Kuwawenaruwa A,Borghi J

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：: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 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：:Because of its policy implications, the income elasticity of health care expenditures is a subject of much debate. Governments may have an interest in subsidizing the care of those with low income. Using more than two decades of data from the Iran Household Expenditure and Income Survey, this article investigates the ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Zare H,Trujillo AJ,Leidman E,Buttorff C

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) has been used to estimate the impact of scaling up intervention coverage on undernutrition and mortality. Evidence for the model is largely based on efficacy trials, raising concerns of applicability to large-scale contexts. We modelled the impact of scaling up health programs in India betw...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Alderman H,Nguyen PH,Menon P

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), making the best use of scarce resources is essential to achieving universal health coverage. The design of health benefits packages creates the opportunity to select interventions on the basis of explicit objectives. Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis (DCEA) provide...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Arnold M,Nkhoma D,Griffin S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although logic models are now touted as an important component of health promotion planning, implementation and evaluation, there are few published manuscripts that describe the process of logic model development, and fewer which do so with community involvement, despite the increasing emphasis on participatory resear...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Afifi RA,Makhoul J,El Hajj T,Nakkash RT

更新日期：2011-11-01 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