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Case Study: Nicaragua's work with PROFAMILIA
The creation of a quality assurance program within PROFAMILIA, a private sector provider of reproductive health services with 17 clinics in Nicaragua, is the topic of this case study, provided by Dr. Oscar Nuñez of the Quality Assurance Project. The intervention included developing a strategic…
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Language : English
Technical Area: Private Health Sector Assessments, Provider Quality
2nd International Conference on "Health Financing in Developing Countries"
This conference aims to gather French and foreign participants from various backgrounds - universities, administrations, development aid agencies, health facilities and other service providers,...) in order to discuss and exchange views on theoretical, conceptual, methodological and applied…
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IUD Checklist Enables Providers to Help Clients Make Informed Contraceptive Choices
Research findings over the past 20 years have established that many women – including women who have not given birth and those who want to space births – can safely use the intrauterine device (IUD). Most recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) removed many restrictions against IUD use by…
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Health Area: Family Planning
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Comparative quality of private and public health services in rural Vietnam
Private health care services were officially recognized in Vietnam in 1989, and for the last 15 years have competed with the public health system in providing primary curative care and pharmaceutical sales to rural populations. However, the quality of these private and public health care…
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Country : Vietnam
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Project: SHOPS
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Technical Area: Provider Quality
Surmounting Challenges: Procurement of Antiretroviral Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
As the price of antiretrovirals (ARVs) in low- and middle-income countries has fallen in recent years, governments, international agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been able to start developing treatment programmes for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Procurement…
Resource Type : Report
Country : Cambodia, Guatemala, Mozambique
Health Area: HIV/AIDS
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
Obstacles to Quality of Care in Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services in Tanzania
Issues of quality of care have become central in debates about family planning and provision of reproductive health services. These debates are a response to inequalities that have not historically been captured in service delivery studies. Discussions concerning quality of care, and my…
Resource Type : Other
Country : Tanzania
Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
Contribution of Mutual Health Organizations to Financing, Delivery, and Access to Health Care
The study represents an important step forward in documenting and understanding the mutual health organization (MHO) experience in the West and Central Africa (WCA) subregion. The main purpose is to present information that could be of use to key actors in the development of the MHOs: the…
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Technical Area: Health Financing
Handhelds for Health: SATELLIFE'S Experiences in Africa and Asia
SATELLIFE has published this report on its experience in using hand held computers (or PDAs) in health projects conducted over the last four years in Africa and Asia. The paper reviews the basics and the issues for anyone considering deploying hand held computers in low resource environments,…
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Evaluation of the Demonstration Project for the Financing of Primary Health Care in Egypt
This report uses a change management conceptual framework to analyze the Family Health Fund demonstration project that was implemented in Egypt from 1998-2001. The Family Health Fund was a new organization established to finance primary care under the first phase of the health reform program in…
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Technical Area: Health Financing
Summary of Results: Prepayment Schemes in the Rwandan Districts of Byumba, Kbgayi, and Kabutare
By implementing prepayment for health care services, the Rwandan Ministry of Health aimed to accomplish four objectives: to expand the population's financial accessibility to care, to improve the quality of care delivered in health facilities, to increase community participation in health, and…
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Technical Area: Provider Quality
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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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