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Handhelds for Health: SATELLIFE'S Experiences in Africa and Asia
SATELLIFE has published this report on its experience in using hand held computers (or PDAs) in health projects conducted over the last four years in Africa and Asia. The paper reviews the basics and the issues for anyone considering deploying hand held computers in low resource environments,…
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Evaluation of the Demonstration Project for the Financing of Primary Health Care in Egypt
This report uses a change management conceptual framework to analyze the Family Health Fund demonstration project that was implemented in Egypt from 1998-2001. The Family Health Fund was a new organization established to finance primary care under the first phase of the health reform program in…
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Summary of Results: Prepayment Schemes in the Rwandan Districts of Byumba, Kbgayi, and Kabutare
By implementing prepayment for health care services, the Rwandan Ministry of Health aimed to accomplish four objectives: to expand the population's financial accessibility to care, to improve the quality of care delivered in health facilities, to increase community participation in health, and…
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Development and Implementation of Prepayment Schemes in Rwanda
Nearly three-fourths of the Rwandan population falls below the poverty line. It is no surprise that a poor population consumes less health care when user fees are charged. Primary health care consultation rates for rural populations dropped to 0.28 per capita per year in 1998 and to 0.24 in 1999…
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Pilot Testing Prepayment for Health Services in Rwanda: Results and Recommendations for Policy Directions and Implementation
Rwanda ranks among the poorest countries in the world. With the introduction of user fees in 1996, utilization of primary health services fell from 0.3 consultations per capita in 1997 to a low of 0.25 consultations per capita in 1999, raising concerns about the poor's financial access to health…
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Falling Fertility in Indonesia: Success in National Family Planning
The National Indonesia Contraceptive Prevalence Survey is part of the worldwide Demographic and Health Services (DHS) Program, which collects data on fertility, family planning, and maternal and child health. The DHS Program is managed by the Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc…
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The Strategies, Experiences and Future Challenges of the Information Component in the Indonesian Family Planning Programme
A detailed description of Indonesia's efforts in the development of information for family planning requires a review of the history of the family planning programme and its information, education and communication (IEC) component, especially since the introduction of new activities such as "…
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Indonesia: Family Planning and Women's Lives
Indonesia has had a strong and pervasive National Family Planning Program for nearly three decades. In the early 1970s , the average Indonesian woman bore six or seven children; today lifetime fertility has dropped to fewer than three children. The family planning program is directed toward…
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Money for nothing : the dire straits of medical practice in Delhi, India
The quality of medical care received by patients varies for two reasons: differences in doctors' competence or differences in doctors' incentives. Using medical vignettes, the authors evaluated competence for a sample of doctors in Delhi. One month later, they observed the same doctors in their…
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Contraceptives Social Marketing: Indonesian Experience
Presentation summarizing two decades of contraceptive social marketing in Indonesia.
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What is the Market Development Approach?
- What is the Market Development Approach (MDA) Process for Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health? Brief #1 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- What is the Market System Framework and Its Role in Developing Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Markets? Brief #2 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- What are Key Terms Used in a Market Development Approach for Health? Brief #3 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- The Meaning and Importance of Stewardship in Developing Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Markets. Brief #4 of 4 in a series on the MDA
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