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Production of Services and Quality of Hospital Care in Southeastern State of Brazil: 1992-1995
The analysis shows a significant downward trend in the frequency of hospital admissions in the State of Rio de Janeiro, probably reflecting the deliberate withdraw of financial investments in this sector, which began in 1993. This reduction was selective with regard to age group distribution -…
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Beyond Public and Private? Unorganised Markets in Health Care Delivery
This paper puts forward three arguments. First our understanding of the health sector is handicapped by trying to fit it into language and concepts which do not adequately capture its changing realities and the political economies within which health sectors are embedded. Second, this has…
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Health Area: HIV/AIDS
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Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
Extending Coverage of Priority Health Care Services through Collaboration with the Private Sector: Selected Experiences of USAID Cooperating Agencies
As it has become apparent in most regions that developing countries' public sectors lack the resources to meet the health care needs of their populations, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has sought increased collaboration with the private sector in the last decade…
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The Quality of Family Planning Programs: Concepts, Measurements, Interventions, and Effects
This study reviews the major research and interventions concerning readiness and quality of care in family planning programs. It has three aims: to identify and describe the principal methodological research including conceptual frameworks, perspectives, and tools for measuring and improving…
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Can developing countries achieve adequate improvements in child health outcomes without engaging the private sector?
The private sector exerts a significant and critical influence on child health outcomes in developing countries, including the health of poor children. This article reviews the available evidence on private sector utilization and quality of care. It provides a framework for analyzing the private…
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Health Area: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
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Improving Health Care Providers' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Reproductive Health in Rural Romania
To support new health reform initiatives undertaken by the Romanian Ministry of Health and Family (MoHF), and in support of the U.S.Agency for International Development (USAID) Romania strategy for improving women's reproductive health, Project Concern International/Romaina (PCI/R) was awarded a…
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Quality of Outpatient Services: Krakow Gmina
This report presents the results of a survey of the quality of outpatient care delivered in the przychodnias of the Krakow gmina. The survey was conducted as part of the Harvard-Jagiellonian Consortium for Health project. The survey was conducted in December of 1997, January and February of 1998…
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Technical Area: Digital Health
Interventions to Improve Antimalarial Use
There are few drugs for malaria, and those which are available for use are subject to rapid development of resistance. Curiously, little effort has been made to improve drug use in malaria-endemic countries and to assess the benefits of such improvements. Advances can be made in public…
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Health Area: Malaria
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A Client-centered Approach to Family Planning: The Davao Project
The reproductive health approach to family planning shifts the focus of service provision from macro-level demographic objectives to meeting clients' needs. Little field experience exists to date, however, to indicate how to implement this approach. This study describes a field project in Davao…
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
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Hospital Autonomy in Indonesia
Indonesia initiated a program of hospital autonomy (Unit Swadana) in 1991 to encourage hospitals to recover some of their costs. Indonesian Unit Swadana hospitals are still government-owned with a high level of supervision and control by both the Ministry of Health and by local authorities at…
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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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