abstract：:How do practitioners respond to the mental distress of HIV-affected women and communities? And do their understandings of patients' distress matter? The World Health Organization (WHO) along with advocates from the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH) champion a primary mental health care model to address burgeoni...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Burgess RA

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Health facilities assessments are an essential instrument for health system strengthening in low- and middle-income countries. These assessments are used to conduct health facility censuses to assess the capacity of the health system to deliver health care and to identify gaps in the coverage of health ser...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Nickerson JW,Adams O,Attaran A,Hatcher-Roberts J,Tugwell P

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last 20 years Lao People's Democratic Republic has successfully developed and adopted some 30 health policies, strategies, decrees and laws in the field of health. Still, the implementation process remains arduous. This article aims at discussing challenges of health policy development and effective impleme...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Jönsson K,Phoummalaysith B,Wahlström R,Tomson G

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：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：:'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：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：BACKGROUND:In Nepal, women residing in rural areas tend to bypass local birth centres and deliver at urban hospitals, despite the availability of obstetric care in these centres. This study investigated the incidence of bypassing, characteristics of bypassers and their reasons for bypassing the birth centres. METHODS:...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Karkee R,Lee AH,Binns CW

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Health-care financing should be equitable. In many developing countries such as Kenya, changes to health-care financing systems are being implemented as a means of providing equitable access to health care with the aim of attaining universal coverage. Vertical equity means that people of dissimilar ability t...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Munge K,Briggs AH

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the role of health governance in shaping the outcomes of healthcare reforms in China. The analysis shows that the failure of reforms during the 1980s and 1990s was in part due to inadequate attention to key aspects in health governance, such as strategic interactions among government, providers a...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Ramesh M,Wu X,He AJ

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：: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: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：:There has been increased interest in and experimentation with demand-side mechanisms such as the use of vouchers that place purchasing power in the hands of targeted consumers to improve the uptake of healthcare services in low-income settings. A key measure of the success of such interventions is the extent to which ...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Kanya L,Obare F,Warren C,Abuya T,Askew I,Bellows B

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：: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：:Financial protection should be the principal objective of any health system. Commonly used indicators for financial protection are out-of-pocket (OOP) payments as a share of total health expenditure and the amount of households driven into poverty by catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs). In the last decade, OOP hea...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Yardim MS,Cilingiroglu N,Yardim N

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) anticipated that growing demand for new vaccines could sufficiently impact the vaccines market to allow low-income countries (LICs) to self-finance new vaccines. But the time required to lower vaccine prices was underestimated and the amount that price...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Gilchrist SA,Nanni A

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：: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：: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：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：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：:This paper investigates the key factors associated with the demand for Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance (URBMI), which was established in 2007 and aims to cover all Chinese urban residents. Two waves of longitudinal household survey data are used, and a three-level random-intercept logit model is used for the an...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Chen G,Yan X

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Public sector price analyses of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines can provide relevant information to detect ARV procurement procedures that do not obtain competitive market prices. Price benchmarks provide a useful tool for programme managers and policy makers to support such planning and policy measures. The aim of the...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Wirtz VJ,Santa-Ana-Tellez Y,Trout CH,Kaplan WA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implementation of policies (decisions) in the health sector is sometimes defeated by the system's response to the policy itself. This can lead to counter-intuitive, unanticipated, or more modest effects than expected by those who designed the policy. The health sector fits the characteristics of complex adaptive syste...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Agyepong IA,Kodua A,Adjei S,Adam T

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:Development assistance for health (DAH) has increased substantially in recent years and is seen as important to the improvement of health and health systems in developing countries. As a result, there has been increasing interest in tracking and understanding these resource flows from the global health community. A nu...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Grépin KA,Leach-Kemon K,Schneider M,Sridhar D

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of medical students trained in Nepal each year has increased nearly fifty-fold in the last 15 years, primarily through the creation of private medical schools. It is unknown where this expanding cohort of new physicians will ultimately practice. We distributed an anonymous survey to students in their last 2...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Huntington I,Shrestha S,Reich NG,Hagopian A

更新日期：2012-08-01 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：:The decision-making process to introduce new vaccines into national immunization programmes is often complex, involving many stakeholders who provide technical information, mobilize finance, implement programmes and garner political support. Stakeholders may have different levels of interest, knowledge and motivations...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Wonodi CB,Privor-Dumm L,Aina M,Pate AM,Reis R,Gadhoke P,Levine OS

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:Protecting households from high out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for health care is an important health system goal. High OOP payments can push households into poverty and make them vulnerable to catastrophic health expenditures. This study, based in India, aims to: (a) estimate OOP payments for health and related impover...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Shahrawat R,Rao KD

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa, health care financing is progressive overall. However, out-of-pocket payments and health insurance for the informal sector are regressive. The distribution of health care benefits is generally pro-rich. This paper explores the factors influencing these distributions in the three co...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Macha J,Harris B,Garshong B,Ataguba JE,Akazili J,Kuwawenaruwa A,Borghi J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND A recent situational analysis suggests that post-apartheid South Africa has made some gains with respect to the decentralization and integration of mental health into primary health care. However, service gaps within and between provinces remain, with rural areas particularly underserved. Aim This study aim...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Petersen I,Lund C,Bhana A,Flisher AJ,Mental Health and Poverty Research Programme Consortium.

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ensuring financial access to health services is a critical challenge for poor countries if they are to reach the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This article examines the case of Rwanda, a country which has championed innovative health care financing policies. Between 2000 and 2007, Rwanda has improved fin...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Sekabaraga C,Diop F,Soucat A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although logic models are now touted as an important component of health promotion planning, implementation and evaluation, there are few published manuscripts that describe the process of logic model development, and fewer which do so with community involvement, despite the increasing emphasis on participatory resear...

journal_title：Health policy and planning

authors： Afifi RA,Makhoul J,El Hajj T,Nakkash RT

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00