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The Quality of Family Planning Programs: Concepts, Measurements, Interventions, and Effects
This study reviews the major research and interventions concerning readiness and quality of care in family planning programs. It has three aims: to identify and describe the principal methodological research including conceptual frameworks, perspectives, and tools for measuring and improving…
Resource Type : Other
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
Can developing countries achieve adequate improvements in child health outcomes without engaging the private sector?
The private sector exerts a significant and critical influence on child health outcomes in developing countries, including the health of poor children. This article reviews the available evidence on private sector utilization and quality of care. It provides a framework for analyzing the private…
Resource Type : Other
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Health Area: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality, Public-Private Engagement
Improving Health Care Providers' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Reproductive Health in Rural Romania
To support new health reform initiatives undertaken by the Romanian Ministry of Health and Family (MoHF), and in support of the U.S.Agency for International Development (USAID) Romania strategy for improving women's reproductive health, Project Concern International/Romaina (PCI/R) was awarded a…
Resource Type : Other
Country : Romania
Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
Quality of Outpatient Services: Krakow Gmina
This report presents the results of a survey of the quality of outpatient care delivered in the przychodnias of the Krakow gmina. The survey was conducted as part of the Harvard-Jagiellonian Consortium for Health project. The survey was conducted in December of 1997, January and February of 1998…
Resource Type : Report
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Digital Health
Interventions to Improve Antimalarial Use
There are few drugs for malaria, and those which are available for use are subject to rapid development of resistance. Curiously, little effort has been made to improve drug use in malaria-endemic countries and to assess the benefits of such improvements. Advances can be made in public…
Resource Type : Other
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Health Area: Malaria
Project: SHOPS
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Technical Area: Provider Quality
A Client-centered Approach to Family Planning: The Davao Project
The reproductive health approach to family planning shifts the focus of service provision from macro-level demographic objectives to meeting clients' needs. Little field experience exists to date, however, to indicate how to implement this approach. This study describes a field project in Davao…
Resource Type : Other
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
Hospital Autonomy in Indonesia
Indonesia initiated a program of hospital autonomy (Unit Swadana) in 1991 to encourage hospitals to recover some of their costs. Indonesian Unit Swadana hospitals are still government-owned with a high level of supervision and control by both the Ministry of Health and by local authorities at…
Resource Type : Other
Country : Indonesia
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
Self-Assessment and Peer Review: Improving Indonesian Service Providers' Communication with Clients
Training alone may not be sufficient to prompt complex and lasting changes in the performance of family planning providers. Affordable and effective reinforcement mechanisms are needed to ensure that providers apply new skills on the job. In December 1997 and January 1998, 201 providers working…
Resource Type : Other
Country : Indonesia
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
Challenging Inequities in Health: from ethics to action
This volume, Challenging Inequities in Health, was conceived as a response to the following: Concerns about widening "health gaps" both between and within countries; disproportionate research focus on inequalities in health in the "North" to the relative neglect of the "South"; and inadequate…
Resource Type : Report
Country : Tanzania, Vietnam
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
Comparison of Public and Private Malaria Services: Implication for Improving the Quality Perception Among the Users from a Low Socio-Economic Locality of Surat, India
Services for malaria care provided by which sector (public or private) are preferred by the community? Objective of this study: To determine the hierarchy of the service related factors influencing the utilization of malaria services (irrespective of the sectors) and to compare the urban health…
Resource Type : Other
Country : India
Health Area: Malaria
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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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