The impact of the obstetrical risk insurance scheme in Mauritania on maternal healthcare utilization: a propensity score matching analysis.

abstract：:Reproduction is a dual commitment, but so often in much of the world, it is seen as wholly the woman's responsibility. She bears the burden not only of pregnancy and childbirth but also the threats from excessive child bearing, some responsibility for contraception, infertility investigation and often undiagnosed sexu...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Mbizvo MT,Bassett MT

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formalized task shifting structures have been used to rapidly scale up antiretroviral service delivery to underserved populations in several countries, and may be a promising mechanism for accomplishing universal health coverage. However, studies evaluating the quality of service delivery through task shifting have la...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Asfaw E,Dominis S,Palen JG,Wong W,Bekele A,Kebede A,Johns B

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Facing escalating health care expenditures, the governments of countries with national health insurance programs are trying to control or even to reduce health care utilization. Little research has examined the effects of decreased health care utilization on health outcomes. Applying a natural experiment design to the...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Wang SY,Chen LK,Hsu SH,Wang SC

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：Background:Access to quality obstetric care is considered essential to reducing maternal and new-born mortality. We evaluated the effect of the introduction of a multifaceted voluntary health insurance programme on hospital deliveries in rural Nigeria. Methods:We used an interrupted time-series design, including a con...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Brals D,Aderibigbe SA,Wit FW,van Ophem JCM,van der List M,Osagbemi GK,Hendriks ME,Akande TM,Boele van Hensbroek M,Schultsz C

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Health insurance premium exemptions for pregnant women are a strategy to increase coverage of maternal health services in sub-Saharan countries. We examine health insurance registration among pregnant women before or after the introduction of a premium exemption, and test whether registration increases utili...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Frimpong JA,Helleringer S,Awoonor-Williams JK,Aguilar T,Phillips JF,Yeji F

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:In Papua New Guinea, investment by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) has played an important role in scaling up the response to HIV and tuberculosis (TB). As part of a series of case studies on how Global Fund-supported programmes interact with national health systems, we assess...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Rudge JW,Phuanakoonon S,Nema KH,Mounier-Jack S,Coker R

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：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：: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：:Approximately 900 000 newborn children die every year in India, accounting for 28% of neonatal deaths globally. In 2011, India introduced a home-based newborn care (HBNC) package to be delivered by community health workers across rural areas. We estimate the disease and economic burden that could be averted by scaling...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Nandi A,Colson AR,Verma A,Megiddo I,Ashok A,Laxminarayan R

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As growth in development assistance for health levels off, development assistance partners must make allocation decisions within tighter budget constraints. Furthermore, with the advent of comprehensive and comparable burden of disease and health financing estimates, empirical evidence can increasingly be used to dire...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Haakenstad A,Templin T,Lim S,Bump JB,Dieleman J

更新日期：2018-02-01 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

abstract：:In 1998 Bangladesh began a sector wide approach (SWAp) to the extension of health care to vulnerable groups in the country. The central feature of this approach is the funding of an essential service package (ESP) emphasizing maternal care, certain communicable diseases and child health. This study examines the way in...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ensor T,Dave-Sen P,Ali L,Hossain A,Begum SA,Moral H

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Scarce evidence exists on the features, determinants and implications of physicians' dual practice, especially in resource-poor settings. This study considered dual practice patterns in three African cities and the respective markets for physician services, with the objective of understanding the influence of local de...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Russo G,McPake B,Fronteira I,Ferrinho P

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The health profile of Bangladesh has improved remarkably, yet gaps in delivering quality health care remain. In response to the need for evidence to quantify resources for providing health services in Bangladesh, this study estimates unit costs of providing the essential services package (ESP) in the not-for-profit se...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Zeng W,Halasa YA,Cros M,Akhter H,Nandakumar AK,Shepard DS

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:There is increasing interest among health policymakers, planners and donors in how corruption affects health care access and outcomes, and what can be done to combat corruption in the health sector. Efforts to explain the risk of abuse of entrusted power for private gain have examined the links between corruption and ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Vian T

更新日期：2008-03-01 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 explores the nature and type of policy transfer promoted by global health partnerships to facilitate access to medication in Cameroon and the associated implementation challenges. Using concepts from policy transfer, multi-level governance and the politics of scale, the paper conceptualizes the social space...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ngoasong MZ

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:When seeking to ensure financial sustainability of a health programme, existence of a line item in the Ministry of Health (MOH) budget is often seen as an essential, first step. We used immunization as a reference point for cross-country comparison of budgeting methods in Sub-Saharan African countries. Study objective...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Griffiths UK,Asman J,Adjagba A,Yo M,Oguta JO,Cho C

更新日期：2020-08-01 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