Health finance diaries represent an innovative way to better understand how the poor finance their health care costs; high frequency data are collected from households to identify how they finance health care when individuals are ill and whether they forgo or delay seeking care. This methodology…
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Technical Area: Health Financing
To help overcome barriers specific to private providers delivering long-acting and permanent methods of family planning in Bangladesh, in 2012 the SHOPS project conducted research on private provider knowledge, attitudes, and practices.
Key findings include:
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
This brief is a summary of the Tanzania private health sector assessment, conducted by the SHOPS project and the IFC-World Bank Health in Africa Initiative in 2012. Sean Callahan prepared this brief, which presents the assessment methods, findings, and key recommendations for engaging the…
Resource Type : Brief
Country : Tanzania
Health Area: HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Tuberculosis
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Private Health Sector Assessments, Public-Private Engagement
This presentation describes an evaluation that SHOPS is conducting of a mobile health platform piloted by FHI/360 under the USAID-funded PROGRESS project. Mobiles for Reproductive Health (m4RH) offers a variety of mobile services related to reproductive health, including information related to…
Resource Type : Presentation
Country : Tanzania
Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Digital Health
This brief is a summary of the Bangladesh private sector assessment of long-acting and permanent family planning methods and injectable contraceptives, conducted by the SHOPS project in 2011 (…
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Private Health Sector Assessments
The Kenya reproductive health vouchers program began in 2006, funded by the German Development Bank. Vouchers were distributed to poor women in Kisumu, Kitui, and Kiambu districts, and in Korogocho and Viwandani slums in Nairobi for safe motherhood, long-term family planning and gender-based…
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Health Area: Family Planning, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Health Financing
While there is significant interest in expanding insurance coverage among the poor through micro-health insurance, there are important barriers, such as price, which may limit uptake. We investigate individuals’ interest in different health insurance packages and willingness to pay for these…
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Country : Nigeria
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Project: SHOPS
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The presentation examines preliminary findings of the evaluation conducted on a pre-paid maternity savings card trial at Pumwani Hospital in Kenya from 2010 to 2011. The pre-paid maternity care savings card, offered by Changamka MicroHealth Limited, allowed families to save for prenatal visits,…
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Health Area: Family Planning, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Health Financing
In collaboration with the Tanzanian Public-Private Partnerships Technical Working Group and the IFC's Health in Africa Initiative, SHOPS conducted a private sector assessment in mainland Tanzania. The broad focus of the assessment was the status of existing public-private partnerships within the…
Resource Type : Report
Country : Tanzania
Health Area: HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Private Health Sector Assessments
As one of the SHOPS project’s most comprehensive country programs, the SHOPS team in Malawi has initiated activities with multiple groups in the health sector. During the first program year, SHOPS has built a strong foundation for dialogue and a network of both public and private health sector…
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Health Area: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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