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SPARHCS: Strategic Pathway to Reproductive Health Commodity Security. A Tool for Assessment, Planning, and Implementation
SPARHCS - The Strategic Pathway to Reproductive Health Commodity Security is a tool to help countries develop and implement strategies to secure essential supplies for family planning and reproductive health programs. SPARHCS is meant to bring together a wide range of stakeholders to initiate at…
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The World Health Report 2005 - Make Every Mother and Child Count
The World Health Report 2005 – Make Every Mother and Child Count, says that this year almost 11 million children under five years of age will die from causes that are largely preventable. Among them are 4 million babies who will not survive the first month of life. At the same time, more than…
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A Guide to Competitive Vouchers in Health
This guide identifies the advantages of competitive voucher schemes in delivering subsidies; describes the circumstances under which they are superior to other subsidy mechanisms; and explains how to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate a voucher scheme. It provides a broad outline of the…
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Public Hospitals: Options for Reform Through Public-Private Partnerships
As governments struggle with rising health care costs, public-private partnerships in constructing and managing public hospitals can provide innovative ways to control costs and improve service. Experience shows that such partnerships offer significant benefits as long as policymakers structure…
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Financing Health Care: Singapore's Innovative Approach
Singapore's health financing system combines universal medical savings accounts with supplementary programs to protect the poor and address potential market failures in health financing. The results have been impressive, with low costs, excellent health outcomes, and full consumer choice of…
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Franchising in Health: Emerging Models, Experiences, and Challenges in Primary Care
In the past decade a growing number of health franchising schemes have emerged in developing countries. Often reaching tens of thousands of poor households, these private schemes currently provide logistical, managerial, and sometimes financial support to small-scale providers (franchisees) of…
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Private Health: Policy and Regulatory Options for Private Participation
Many developing countries face a critical gap between the demand for health care services and their supply. Public resources often fall short of what is needed to provide universal health care, and the typical incentive structure in the public sector may not always be conducive to expanding…
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The Essentials of Contraceptive Technology: A Handbook for Clinic Staff
This handbook is for family planning and reproductive health care providers, public and private alike. It contains state-of-the-art, practical information about family planning methods, how to provide them, and how to help clients use them. The handbook is also available in English, French,…
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Taking a Business Approach to Improve Quality of Care: Evidence from the Uganda Private Providers Loan Fund
Lack of financing and basic business skills are constraining the growth of small private practices in Uganda. The objective of the Uganda Private Providers Loan Fund is to provide access to credit and technical assistance in business skills to at least 500 private providers in order to increase…
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The AIDS Pandemic in the 21st Century
This report provides an update on one of the key international health and demographic events of our time, the worldwide HIV/AIDS pandemic, a source of some of the uncertainty associated with demographic change in the coming decades. It includes information on the impact of AIDS on mortality and…
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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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