Counting indirect crisis-related deaths in the context of a low-resilience health system: the case of maternal and neonatal health during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone.

abstract：:The burden of diarrhoeal disease remains high in the developing world. Community-based safe drinking water programmes are being promoted as cost-effective interventions that will help reduce this illness burden. However, the effectiveness of these programmes remains under-investigated. The primary argument of this pap...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： deWilde CK,Milman A,Flores Y,Salmerón J,Ray I

更新日期：2008-11-01 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：:Home visiting programmes are increasingly recognized as one of the most effective interventions to improve child health and development in low-income settings. However, the best platforms to deliver such programmes remain unclear. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to test the relative effectiveness of child d...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Brentani A,Walker S,Chang-Lopez S,Grisi S,Powell C,Fink G

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Global financing for the HIV response has reached unprecedented levels in recent years. Over US$10 billion were mobilized in 2007, an effort credited with saving the lives of millions of people living with HIV (PLHIV). A relatively unexamined aspect of the global HIV response is the role of the private sector in finan...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Sulzbach S,De S,Wang W

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:This paper explores changes to budget allocations for health during the decentralization process in UGANDA: When the districts were given the authority to allot their own budgets, allocations for health were reduced considerably. The rationale for this by district leaders is investigated and analyzed. Their criteria f...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Jeppsson A

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:This paper provides guidance on how to do a stakeholder analysis, whether the aim is to conduct a policy analysis, predict policy development, implement a specific policy or project, or obtain an organizational advantage in one's dealings with other stakeholders. Using lessons learned from an analysis of alcohol polic...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Varvasovszky Z,Brugha R

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：: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：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：:In countries with large gender disparities in health status, can investments in local communities mitigate the gender bias observed in intra-household resource allocations? This paper explores the evidence for gender differences in the impact of community prices and infrastructure on child nutritional outcomes. Standa...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Holmes J

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：: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：: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：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：: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：: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：:Providing quality emergency obstetric care (EmOC) reduces the risk of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity. There is evidence that over 50% of maternal health programmes that result in improving access to EmOC and reduce maternal mortality have an EmOC training component. The objective was to review the eviden...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ameh CA,Mdegela M,White S,van den Broek N

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'One World, One Health' has become a key rallying theme for the integration of public health and animal health priorities, particularly in the governance of pandemic-scale zoonotic infectious disease threats. However, the policy challenges of integrating public health and animal health priorities in the context of tra...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Mwacalimba KK,Green J

更新日期：2015-03-01 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 1991, Zimbabwe introduced cost recovery measures as part of its programme of economic reforms, following a course taken by many developing countries. The system of user fees in public health care, aimed to 'protect and support the vulnerable groups' by exemption or incremental fees based on 4 income brackets. Drugs...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Chisadza E,Maponga CC,Nazerali H

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indonesia has seen an emergence of local health care financing schemes over the last decade, implemented and operated by district governments. Often motivated by the local political context and characterized by a large degree of heterogeneity in scope and design, the common objective of the district schemes is to addr...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Sparrow R,Budiyati S,Yumna A,Warda N,Suryahadi A,Bedi AS

更新日期：2017-02-01 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：:Low renewal rate is a key challenge facing the sustainability of community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes. While there is a large literature on initial enrolment into such schemes, there is limited evidence on the factors that impede renewal. This article uses longitudinal data to analyse what determines renewa...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Panda P,Chakraborty A,Raza W,Bedi AS

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:As national resources for health decline, so dependence on international resources to finance the capital and recurrent costs is increasing. This dependence, combined with an increasing emphasis on policy-based, as opposed to project-based, lending and grant-making has been accompanied by greater involvement of intern...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Okuonzi SA,Macrae J

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：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：: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