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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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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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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Nearly three-fourths of the Rwandan population falls below the poverty line. It is no surprise that a poor population consumes less health care when user fees are charged. Primary health care consultation rates for rural populations dropped to 0.28 per capita per year in 1998 and to 0.24 in 1999…
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Rwanda ranks among the poorest countries in the world. With the introduction of user fees in 1996, utilization of primary health services fell from 0.3 consultations per capita in 1997 to a low of 0.25 consultations per capita in 1999, raising concerns about the poor's financial access to health…
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The National Indonesia Contraceptive Prevalence Survey is part of the worldwide Demographic and Health Services (DHS) Program, which collects data on fertility, family planning, and maternal and child health. The DHS Program is managed by the Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc…
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A detailed description of Indonesia's efforts in the development of information for family planning requires a review of the history of the family planning programme and its information, education and communication (IEC) component, especially since the introduction of new activities such as "…
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Indonesia has had a strong and pervasive National Family Planning Program for nearly three decades. In the early 1970s , the average Indonesian woman bore six or seven children; today lifetime fertility has dropped to fewer than three children. The family planning program is directed toward…
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The quality of medical care received by patients varies for two reasons: differences in doctors' competence or differences in doctors' incentives. Using medical vignettes, the authors evaluated competence for a sample of doctors in Delhi. One month later, they observed the same doctors in their…
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Presentation summarizing two decades of contraceptive social marketing in Indonesia.
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