Progress in reducing child mortality and stunting in India: an application of the Lives Saved Tool.

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：BACKGROUND:One billion children live in war-affected regions of the world. We conducted the first cost-effectiveness analysis of an intervention for war-affected youth in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as a broader cost analysis. METHODS:The Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI) is a behavioural treatment for reducing funct...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： McBain RK,Salhi C,Hann K,Salomon JA,Kim JJ,Betancourt TS

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor mental health is a pressing global health problem, with high prevalence among poor populations from low-income countries. Existing studies of conditional cash transfer (CCT) effects on mental health have found positive effects. However, there is a gap in the literature on population-wide effects of cash transfers...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ohrnberger J,Fichera E,Sutton M,Anselmi L

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cambodia's healthcare system has seen significant improvements in the last two decades. Despite this, access to quality care remains problematic, particularly for poor rural Cambodians. The government has committed to universal health coverage (UHC) and is reforming the health financing system to align with this goal....

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Asante AD,Ir P,Jacobs B,Supon L,Liverani M,Hayen A,Jan S,Wiseman V

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the start of the United Nations International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade in the 1980s, guinea worm disease was targeted as the major indicator of the success of the Decade's efforts to promote safe water. By the late 1980s, most of the guinea worm endemic countries in Africa and South Asia had esta...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Brieger WR,Otusanya S,Adeniyi JD,Tijani J,Banjoko M

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subsequent to recommendations from the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, and given recent findings outlining the links between control of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and a reduction in HIV incidence, many countries are now seeking to establish STI control programmes...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Hawkes S

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：: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：: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：BACKGROUND:Afghanistan has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world. We assess the health outcomes and cost-effectiveness of strategies to improve the safety of pregnancy and childbirth in Afghanistan. METHODS:Using national and sub-national data, we adapted a previously validated model that simulat...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Carvalho N,Salehi AS,Goldie SJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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

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：: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：:Although many public hospital physicians in Vietnam offer private service on the side, little is known about the magnitude and nature of the phenomenon so-called dual practice, let alone the dynamics between the public and private health sectors. This study investigates how and to what degree public hospital physician...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Do N,Do YK

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：: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：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：:Unlike any other disease so far, the 'exceptional' nature of HIV/AIDS has prompted debate about the necessity, but also the challenges, of regulating practitioner-patient communication around HIV testing. In India, the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) has adopted the guidelines of the World Health Organizatio...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Datye V,Kielmann K,Sheikh K,Deshmukh D,Deshpande S,Porter J,Rangan S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVES Like many other developing countries, South Africa provides free medicines through its public health care facilities. Recent policies encourage generic substitution in the private sector. This study explored South African consumer perceptions of drug quality and whether these perceptions influenced how peop...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Patel A,Gauld R,Norris P,Rades T

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：: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

abstract：:Task-shifting the provision of pregnancy tests to community health workers (CHWs) in low-resource settings has the potential to reach significantly more underserved women at risk of pregnancy with essential reproductive health services. This study assessed whether an intervention to supply CHWs with home pregnancy tes...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Comfort AB,Juras RC,Bradley SEK,Ranjalahy Rasolofomanana J,Noeliarivelo Ranjalahy A,Harper CC

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:Caesarean section rates have been increasing worldwide, raising the question of the appropriateness of the selection of cases for the procedure. This paper examines the levels and correlates of delivery-related complications and caesarean section deliveries in 18 selected states of India in terms of specific maternal ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Mishra US,Ramanathan M

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：: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：:The 2014-16 West Africa Ebola epidemic was a watershed moment for global health. The outbreak galvanized global action around strengthening infectious disease prevention, detection and response capabilities. We examined the nascent landscape of international programmes, initiatives and institutions established in the ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ravi SJ,Snyder MR,Rivers C

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About 87 000 neonates die annually in Ethiopia, with slower progress than for child deaths and 85% of births are at home. As part of a multi-country, standardized economic evaluation, we examine the incremental benefit and costs of providing management of possible serious bacterial infection (PSBI) for newborns at hea...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Mathewos B,Owen H,Sitrin D,Cousens S,Degefie T,Wall S,Bekele A,Lawn JE,Daviaud E

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00