Evidence on access to medicines for chronic diseases from household surveys in five low- and middle-income countries.

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：:Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa face the problem of organizing health service delivery in a manner that provides adequate quality and coverage of health care to their populations against a background of economic recession and limited resources. In response to these challenges, different governments, including tha...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Agyepong IA

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：: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：: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：:The persistently low quality and inadequacy of health services provided in public facilities has made the private sector an unavoidable choice for consumers of health care in Nigeria. Ineffective state regulation, however, has meant little control over the clinical activities of private sector providers while the pric...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ogunbekun I,Ogunbekun A,Orobaton N

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance-Based Financing (PBF) is a promising approach to improve health system performance in developing countries, but there are concerns that it may inadequately address inequalities in access to care. Incentives for reaching the poor may prove beneficial, but evidence remains limited. We evaluated a system of t...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Flink IJ,Ziebe R,Vagaï D,van de Looij F,van 't Riet H,Houweling TA

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：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：:Of the millions of Community Health Workers (CHWs) serving their communities across the world, there are approximately twice as many female CHWs as there are male. Hiring women has in many cases become an ethical expectation, in part because working as a CHW is often seen as empowering the CHW herself to enact positiv...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Closser S,Napier H,Maes K,Abesha R,Gebremariam H,Backe G,Fossett S,Tesfaye Y

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Concerns about appropriate pricing strategies and the high market share of subsidized condoms prompted Population Services International (PSI)/Myanmar to adopt a total market approach (TMA). This article presents data on the size and composition of the Myanmar condom market, identifies inefficiencies and rec...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Htat HW,Longfield K,Mundy G,Win Z,Montagu D

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:In recent years there has been a growth in the number of independent health policy analysis institutes in low- and middle-income countries which has occurred in response to the limitation of government analytical capacity and pressures associated with democratization. This study aimed to: (i) investigate the contribut...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Bennett S,Corluka A,Doherty J,Tangcharoensathien V,Patcharanarumol W,Jesani A,Kyabaggu J,Namaganda G,Hussain AM,de-Graft Aikins A

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

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：:Sector-wide approaches (SWAps) in health were developed in the early 1990s in response to widespread dissatisfaction with fragmented donor-sponsored projects and prescriptive adjustment lending. SWAps were intended to provide a more coherent way to articulate and manage government-led sectoral policies and expenditure...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Peters DH,Paina L,Schleimann F

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：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：: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：:Although the number of direct Ebola-related deaths from the 2013 to 2016 West African Ebola outbreak has been quantified, the number of indirect deaths, resulting from decreased utilization of routine health services, remains unknown. Such information is a key ingredient of health system resilience, essential for adeq...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Sochas L,Channon AA,Nam S

更新日期：2017-11-01 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 question of why some immunization programmes in sub-Saharan Africa are more successful than others is an intriguing one, but not one that is frequently raised or investigated. Borrowing techniques from both performance benchmarking and positive deviance inquiry, we explored this question in six countries. We first...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Naimoli JF,Challa S,Schneidman M,Kostermans K

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is some evidence that female sex workers (FSWs) receive greater earnings for providing unprotected sex. In 2003, the landscape of the fight against HIV/AIDS dramatically changed in India with the introduction of Avahan, the largest HIV prevention programme implemented globally. Using a unique, cross-sectional bi...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Quaife M,Lépine A,Deering K,Terris-Prestholt F,Beattie T,Isac S,Paranjape RS,Vickerman P

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVE:This study compares household heads' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for community-based health insurance (CBI) for themselves with their WTP for other household members, in order to provide information for policy makers on setting the premium and choosing the enrollment unit. METHOD:A random sample of 698 heads of...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Dong H,Kouyate B,Cairns J,Sauerborn R

更新日期：2004-03-01 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:Lack of information on the warning signs of complications during pregnancy, parturition and postpartum hampers women's ability to partake fully in safe motherhood initiatives. We assessed the extent to which women in 19 countries of sub-Saharan Africa recall receiving information about pregnancy complicati...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Nikiéma B,Beninguisse G,Haggerty JL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring and tracking the quality of healthcare is a critical part of improving service delivery, clinic efficiency and health outcomes. However, no standardized or widely accepted tool exists to assess the quality of clinic-based family planning services in low- and middle-income countries. The objective of this lit...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Sprockett A

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Vietnam, as in many other countries, tuberculosis (TB) control has long been organized exclusively within the public health-care system. However, recently the private health-care sector has become more important and private health-care providers currently have a role in TB care delivery in Vietnam. Through a retros...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Lönnroth K,Thuong LM,Linh PD,Diwan VK

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The end of the Cold War brought with it opportunities to resolve a number of conflicts around the world, including those in Angola, Cambodia, El Salvador and Mozambique. International political efforts to negotiate peace in these countries were accompanied by significant aid programmes ostensibly designed to redress t...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Lanjouw S,Macrae J,Zwi AB

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00