'One health' and development priorities in resource-constrained countries: policy lessons from avian and pandemic influenza preparedness in Zambia.

abstract：Objective:Access to hospitals in megacities in low and middle income countries might be hampered by travel barriers and distance. We assessed the 'inverse care law' hypothesis: whether hospitals tended to be built in the relatively better-off areas through the time. Methods:A longitudinal time-series study (1966 to 20...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Chavehpour Y,Rashidian A,Raghfar H,Emamgholipour Sefiddashti S,Maroofi A

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent efforts to prevent post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) in low-income countries have focused on providing women with access to oral misoprostol during home birth. The WHO recommends using lay health workers (LHWs) to administer misoprostol in settings where skilled birth attendants are not available. This review synth...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Smith HJ,Colvin CJ,Richards E,Roberson J,Sharma G,Thapa K,Gülmezoglu AM

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:Distributional economic evaluation estimates the value for money of health interventions in terms of population health and health equity impacts. When applied to interventions delivered at the population and health system-level interventions (PSIs) instead of clinical interventions, additional practical and methodolog...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Love-Koh J,Mirelman A,Suhrcke M

更新日期：2020-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess the impact of National Health Insurance (NHI) on the utilization of neonatal care and childhood vaccination in Taiwan. Data are selected from two nationwide maternal and infant surveys undertaken in 1989 and 1996, which were funded by the Department of Health. The questionnair...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Liu TC,Chen CS,Chen LM

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：:Social accountability is increasingly invoked as a way of improving health services. This article presents a theory-driven qualitative study of the context, mechanisms and outcomes of a social accountability program, Citizen Voice and Action (CVA), implemented by World Vision (WV) in Zambia. Primary data were collecte...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Schaaf M,Topp SM,Ngulube M

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:The 2011 United Nations (UN) General Assembly Political Declaration on Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) brought NCDs to the global health agenda. Essential medicines are central to treating chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. Our study aimed to quantify access to essential med...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Vialle-Valentin CE,Serumaga B,Wagner AK,Ross-Degnan D

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Realist evaluation furnishes valuable insight to public health practitioners and policy makers about how and why interventions work or don't work. Moving beyond binary measures of success or failure, it provides a systematic approach to understanding what goes on in the 'Black Box' and how implementation decisions in ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Adams A,Sedalia S,McNab S,Sarker M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports an empirical investigation into the pattern of private health insurance coverage in South Africa before and after deregulation of the health insurance industry. More specifically, we sought to measure trends in risk-pooling over the period 1985-95, and to assess the impact of risk pooling on the cos...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Söderlund N,Hansl B

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence regarding the role of nurses-in-leadership and how to engage nurses in policy decisions is minimal in sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of this study was: (1) to assess the leadership practices of nurses-in-leadership in Uganda (by self-report) and from the perspective of 'followers' (direct-report, peers, co-w...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Nanyonga RC,Bosire EN,Heller DJ,Bradley E,Reynolds NR

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many clients of HIV care and treatment services have unmet contraceptive needs. Integrating family planning (FP) services into HIV services is an increasingly utilized strategy for meeting those unmet needs. However, numerous models for services integration are potentially applicable for clients with diverse...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Baumgartner JN,Green M,Weaver MA,Mpangile G,Kohi TW,Mujaya SN,Lasway C

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：: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：:The advantages of established intergovernmental decision-making arenas for the implementation of health policies in decentralized settings are not well known. This paper presents the case of the joint health management committee, known as the Tripartite Committee, created to formalize intergovernmental decisions about...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Miranda AS

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:In most settings, a 'public' health service refers to a service which belongs to the state. The term 'private' is used when health care is delivered by individuals and/or institutions not administered by the state. In this paper it is argued that such a distinction, which is based on the institutional or administrativ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Giusti D,Criel B,De Béthune X

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:A decade after the first International Conference on Safe Motherhood, maternal mortality remains very high in most West African countries, even in capital cities. The detection of high risk pregnancies, known as the risk approach, during antenatal consultations has been the basis of most maternal and child health prog...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Prual A,Toure A,Huguet D,Laurent Y

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Iranian health system, under the banner of family physician (FP) programme, has undergone substantial reforms to change utilization of health services, improve quality of care and enhance affordability. The national implementation of FP initiated in 2005 in parallel with rural health insurance (RHI) in r...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Takian A,Rashidian A,Doshmangir L

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:It has been argued that targeting delivery of anthelmintics to school-children by taking advantage of the existing education infrastructure and administrative system can be one of the most cost-effective approaches in minimizing the intensity of infections with both schistosomiasis and major intestinal nematodes in ma...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors：

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：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 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：: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：: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：: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：:Evidence suggests that a regular and reliable transfer of cash to households with orphaned and vulnerable children has a strong and positive effect on child outcomes. However, conditional cash transfers are considered by some as particularly intrusive and the question on whether or not to apply conditions to cash tran...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Skovdal M,Robertson L,Mushati P,Dumba L,Sherr L,Nyamukapa C,Gregson S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00