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Use and misuse of a discount voucher scheme as a subsidy for insecticide-treated nets for malaria control in southern Tanzania
Since 1997, discount vouchers for insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) have been used in two rural districts of southern Tanzania as a way to target subsidies to children under 5 years and pregnant women. We assessed appropriate use and misuse of discount vouchers through a follow-up study of 104…
Resource Type : Report
Country : Tanzania
Health Area: Malaria
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Health Financing
Comparing the services and quality of private and public clinics in rural China
After 15 years eradication of the private health sector in Socialist China, private practice was restored in 1980 along with the market oriented economic reform. In recent years, however, debates on its pros and cons are increasing. Arguments against private practice have led to a ban on private…
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Social Franchising of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Honduras and Nicaragua - Full Report, English
Through its Global Partnership, international sexual and reproductive health (SRH) organization, Marie Stopes International (MSI), has pioneered the use of social franchising to increase the reach of its SRH services into the community, while ensuring the high standards for which the Partnership…
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Health Area: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Social Franchising of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Honduras and Nicaragua - Full Report, Spanish
Through its Global Partnership, international sexual and reproductive health (SRH) organization, Marie Stopes International (MSI), has pioneered the use of social franchising to increase the reach of its SRH services into the community, while ensuring the high standards for which the Partnership…
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Health Area: Sexual and Reproductive Health
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Language : English
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Getting clinicians to do their best: Ability, Altruism and Incentives
The quality of health care services is an important factor in health outcomes. To what degree is the quality of care provided by a clinician in consultation limited by ability (capacity) as opposed to motivation? By measuring the ability and actual practice of a sample of clinicians in Tanzania…
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Country : Tanzania
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
The structuring of health systems and the control of infectious disease: looking at Mexico and Cuba
This paper considers the implications that distinct organizing principles for health systems have for the control of infectious diseases. The paper takes the health systems in Mexico and Cuba as examples of neighboring but widely divergent systems, producing different pubic health outcomes. The…
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
Purchasing Basic Health Services in the Community Setting
To achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals, it will be necessary to improve the delivery of health services, particularly to poor people. One proposed approach to improving both coverage and quality of care is to contract with NGOs or other non-state entities to deliver health…
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Project: SHOPS
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Does a competitive voucher program for adolescents improve the quality of reproductive health care? A simulated patient study in Nicaragua
Background: Little is known about how sexual and reproductive (SRH) health can be made accessible and appropriate to adolescents. This study evaluates the impact and sustainability of a competitive voucher program on the quality of SRH care for poor and underserved female adolescents and the…
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Health Area: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Health Financing
On Targets: Quarterly Newsletter, Issue #3, August 2006
Targets receives funding from DFID and conducts research to generate effective tools and strategies for communicable disease control. This is their quarterly newsletter from August 2006.
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Health Area: HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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The cost-effectiveness of a competitive voucher scheme to reduce sexually transmitted infections in high-risk groups in Nicaragua
Current evidence suggests that sexually transmitted infection (STI) interventions can be an effective means of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention in populations at an early stage of the epidemic. However, evidence as to their cost-effectiveness when targeted at high-risk groups is…
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Technical Area: Health Financing
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