Combating non-communicable diseases: potentials and challenges for community health workers in a digital age, a narrative review of the literature.

abstract：Background:This study describes the post-diagnosis care-seeking costs incurred by people living with TB and/or HIV and their households, in order to identify the potential benefits of integrated care. Methods:We conducted a cross-sectional study with 454 participants with TB or HIV or both in public primary health car...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Mudzengi D,Sweeney S,Hippner P,Kufa T,Fielding K,Grant AD,Churchyard G,Vassall A

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：: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：:In low- and middle-income countries, patients may travel abroad to seek better health services or treatments that are not available at home, especially in regions where great disparities exist between the standard of care in neighbouring countries. While awareness of South-South medical travels has increased, only a f...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Liverani M,Ir P,Jacobs B,Asante A,Jan S,Leang S,Man N,Hayen A,Wiseman V

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：: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：INTRODUCTION:There is an immense need for scaling-up neuropsychiatric care in low-income countries. Contextualized cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) provide relevant information for local policies. The aim of this study is to perform a contextualized CEA of neuropsychiatric interventions in Ethiopia and to illustrate ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Strand KB,Chisholm D,Fekadu A,Johansson KA

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Zambia has one of the most liberal abortion laws in sub-Saharan Africa. However, rates of unsafe abortion remain high with negative health and economic consequences. Little is known about the economic burden on women of abortion care-seeking in low income countries. The majority of studies focus on direct costs (e.g. ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Leone T,Coast E,Parmar D,Vwalika B

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:This paper discusses some conceptual underpinnings of research on gender and quality of health services and demonstrates the importance of training health professionals about how gender influences the health-illness-care process in men and women. It addresses the need to provide opportunities for health providers to u...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Hartigan P

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:As in many developing countries, lack of reliable data and grossly inadequate appreciation and use of available information in planning and management of health services were two main weaknesses of the health information systems in Malawi. Malawi began strengthening its health management information system with an ana...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Chaulagai CN,Moyo CM,Koot J,Moyo HB,Sambakunsi TC,Khunga FM,Naphini PD

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：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：:Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) has been adopted by over 80 countries as a strategy for reducing child mortality and improving child health and development. It includes complementary interventions designed to address the major causes of child mortality at community, health facility, and health system...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Armstrong Schellenberg J,Bryce J,de Savigny D,Lambrechts T,Mbuya C,Mgalula L,Wilczynska K,Tanzania IMCI Multi-Country Evaluation Health Facility Survey Study Group.

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:In Chile, workers are mandated to choose either public or private health insurance coverage. Although private insurance premiums depend on health risk, public insurance premiums are solely linked to income. This structure implies that individuals with higher health risks may tend to avoid private insurance, leaving th...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Pardo C,Schott W

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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

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更新日期：1998-12-01 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：:BACKGROUND Post-communist health care reforms and the break-up of Czechoslovakia have been studied from various perspectives, but little research has addressed the impact on health system performance. This paper investigates the quality and performance of the Slovak and Czech health systems before and after 1989, incl...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Kossarova L,Holland W,Mossialos E

更新日期：2013-08-01 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

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：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：BACKGROUND:Several countries in sub-Saharan Africa have recently adopted policies that remove user fees for facility-based delivery services. There is little rigorous evidence of the impact of these policies on utilization of delivery services and no evaluations have examined effects on neonatal mortality rates (NMR). ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： McKinnon B,Harper S,Kaufman JS,Bergevin Y

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00