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Contraceptive Security Ready Lessons 5: Using Data for Decision Making
Lesson 5 - Foster information-based decision-making as a motivator for action at program, country, and global levels. The timely collection, analysis, and use of reliable data are crucial for planning, monitoring, and evaluating progress towards contraceptive security. This requires data…
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Contraceptive Security Ready Lessons 4: Advocating for Sustained Commitment
Key Concept - Keep the Pressure On Early gains for contraceptive security can be easily lost. In the face of competing health priorities, scarce resources, and shifting political winds, pressure can be kept on governments, donors, and others to not only remain committed to contraceptive security…
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Contraceptive Security Ready Lessons 3: Taking a Whole Market Approach
A coordinated approach that responds to the multiplicity of family planning needs in a country will ensure that the entire market of clients – from those who require free supplies to those who can and will pay for commercial products – is covered. This will avoid overlapping efforts, inefficient…
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Contraceptive Security Ready Lessons 2: Doing a Joint Assessment
Lesson 2: Assess challenges and opportunities for contraceptive security by making a joint diagnosis of the problems and strengths that exist in the system.
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Contraceptive Security Ready Lessons 1: Raising Awareness and Commitment
Lack of financing for supplies is often blamed for contraceptive shortages. However, the challenges to achieving contraceptive security come from many fronts. In most countries, the problem is not only one of financing, but also of disruptions and vulnerabilities in the many systems needed to…
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Accreditation of Providers for the National Health Insurance Fund of Tanzania
This report examines the critical elements of quality assessment, the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) Act of 1999 Act requirements for accreditation and the means of registering and evaluating health providers. Potential problems with accreditation are identified and practical guidance for…
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Privately Funded Quality Health Care in India: A Sustainable and Equitable Model
As the cost and degree of training necessary to provide state of the art health care has increased throughout the world, the present challenge in health care is to establish institutions that are financially sound and responsive to the dynamic needs of the communities in which they exist. As…
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Working with the Private Sector for Child Health
This Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Discussion Paper was prepared for the SARA Project by the Inter-Agency Working Group on Private Participation and Child Health. It identifies strategies to work with the private sector to improve child health by contracting, setting standards and…
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Health Area: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
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Technical Area: Pharmaceutical Partnerships and Social Marketing, Public-Private Engagement
Global Public–Private Partnerships: Part I – A New Development in Health?
The proliferation of public-private partnerships is rapidly reconfiguring the international health landscape. This article (part I of two on the subject) traces the changing nature of partnership, and discusses the definitional and conceptual ambiguities surrounding the term. After defining…
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Public–Private Health Partnerships: A Strategy for WHO
Following early success with a number of high-profile partnerships, WHO is increasingly working with the private for-profit sector. In so doing, the organization finds itself in the maelstrom of a vibrant debate on the roles of public, civic, and commercial entities in society and on the…
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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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