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Self-Assessment and Peer Review: Improving Indonesian Service Providers' Communication with Clients
Training alone may not be sufficient to prompt complex and lasting changes in the performance of family planning providers. Affordable and effective reinforcement mechanisms are needed to ensure that providers apply new skills on the job. In December 1997 and January 1998, 201 providers working…
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Challenging Inequities in Health: from ethics to action
This volume, Challenging Inequities in Health, was conceived as a response to the following: Concerns about widening "health gaps" both between and within countries; disproportionate research focus on inequalities in health in the "North" to the relative neglect of the "South"; and inadequate…
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Comparison of Public and Private Malaria Services: Implication for Improving the Quality Perception Among the Users from a Low Socio-Economic Locality of Surat, India
Services for malaria care provided by which sector (public or private) are preferred by the community? Objective of this study: To determine the hierarchy of the service related factors influencing the utilization of malaria services (irrespective of the sectors) and to compare the urban health…
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Quality of Care: The Progress in the Bangladesh Family Planning Program
Quality of care is the issue of the decade. Every family planning and reproductive health program in the world is focusing attention on quality. There is a dynamic effort to improve family planning services while serving an increasing numbers of clients. These formidable goals are balanced with…
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Affordable access to essential medication in developing countries: conflicts between ethical and economic imperatives
Recent economic and political advances in developing countries on the African continent and South East Asia are threatened by the rising death and morbidity rates of HIV/AIDS. In the first part of this paper we explain the reasons for the absence of affordable access to essential AIDS medication…
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Addressing the General and Reproductive Health of Women in Global Supply Chains
This report presents the findings of a project initiated by Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) with the support of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to improve awareness of the reproductive and general health needs of women workers in a global supply chain.
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A Compendium of Corporate Social Responsibility Activities Worldwide
This Compendium is a compilation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities implemented by the business community and business organizations around the world. It is the product of an intensive desk research by CATALYST that involved: a broad website search of CSR organizations,…
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Quality and Comparison of Antenatal Care in Public and Private Providers in the United Republic of Tanzania
In recent years, many developing countries have been actively seeking to improve the outputs and outcomes of their health care delivery system by engaging in a process of reform. The present study, carried out in Dar es Salaam in 1999, compared the quality of antenatal care offered by public and…
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Consultation on the Private Health Sector in Africa
In September 1993, AID and some of its cooperating agencies held a consultative meeting to identify the key policy issues relating to the private health sector in Africa, in order to contribute to the strategic framework upon which the Health and Human Resources Analysis for Africa (HHRAA)…
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Zimbabwe's ProFam: Delivering Affordable Reproductive Health Options
ProFam, a network now consisting of 1,143 private health clinics in Zimbabwe, has helped increase hormonal contraceptive use among Zimbabweans despite their rapidly declining economic status. During the ProFarm intervention period from 1998 to 2003, the hormonal contraceptive market in Zimbabwe…
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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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