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Exploring challenges in health transition planning
HEART talks
July 18, 2019

Effective health planning is critical in ensuring affordable, accessible, and high quality health services for all. Many low- and middle-income countries rely on donor funding to establish or maintain the basic healthcare services, and often struggle to ensure sustainability of these when sources of funding in the sector change. Multilateral organisations and government partners have… Read more

health systems, health transition planning, transition planning
Health
How can countries get the most out of their investments in health?
HEART talks
July 18, 2019

The ability of countries to provide available, affordable, and high quality healthcare services to their populations has become a global priority. However, at least half of the population around the world still don’t have access to essential healthcare, and around 100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty because they have to pay for healthcare. Universal… Read more

investment in health, UHC, universal health coverage
Health
Exploring the importance of effective supply chain management in health
HEART talks
July 16, 2019

Vimal Kumar, principal consultant in the Oxford Policy Management Health team, discusses the importance of procurement and supply chain management in supporting effective policy reforms. Ensuring availability, affordability, and quality of commodities (for example medicines) to provide services to the patients is one of the key outcomes which procurement and supply chain management establishes. This… Read more

Health
Networking in eHealth – A learning evaluation of the IDRC Strengthening Equity through Applied Research Capacity building in eHealth (SEARCH) programme
Document Library
March 29, 2019

In 2017 the Canadian IDRC concluded a six-year programme supporting research organisations in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lebanon, Peru and Vietnam in the development and testing of solutions to strengthen health systems through information technology. The programme under the title ‘Strengthening Equity through Applied Research Capacity building in eHealth’ (SEARCH) set out four objectives:… Read more

eHealth, health equity
Health
Social Protection
Disability in South Sudan
Helpdesk Report
April 10, 2018

Decades of conflict in South Sudan, pre and post-independence in 2011, poverty and poor access to services have increased the rate of disability and rendered people with disabilities more marginalised and excluded as a result of the numerous attitudinal, environmental, and institutional barriers they face, and the lack of concerted efforts to include them. This… Read more

Access to services, Disability, Inclusive development
Health
Blood Costs in Zimbabwe
Helpdesk Report
January 2, 2018

There is lack of published data on the costs of blood and blood transfusion in sub-Saharan Africa (Mafirakureva et al., 2016). Experts consulted for this rapid review confirm that the deficiency in the breakdown of components involved in costs hinders fair comparative analysis with different countries. Although the focus for this rapid review is on… Read more

blood products, blood transfusion
Health
Urban Health
HEART talks
November 29, 2016

Dr Helen Elsey is from the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, University of Leeds. In this HEART Talks she talks through the urban health HEART reading packs that she has put together with Dr Siddharth Agarwal from the Urban Health Resource Centre in India. The three reading packs are: A) Data and evidence,… Read more

Early Child Development, health promotion, Public-Private Partnerships, slums, Transport, urban health, Urbanisation, WASH
Health
How equitable are community health worker programmes and which programme features influence equity of community health worker services? A systematic review
Document Library
May 31, 2016

Community health workers (CHWs) are uniquely placed to link communities with the health system, playing a role in improving the reach of health systems and bringing health services closer to hard-to-reach and marginalised groups. A systematic review was conducted to determine the extent of equity of CHW programmes and to identify intervention design factors which… Read more

community health workers, health equity, health systems, universal health coverage
Gender
Health
Social Protection
Essential gender issues in relation to health systems
HEART talks
April 25, 2016

In a group interview Sarah Ssali (Makerere University), Sally Theobald (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine), Rosemary Morgan (John Hopkins University) and Asha George (John Hopkins University) talk about essential gender issues in relation to health systems. They also promote the RinGs Initiative (Research in Gender and Ethics) and talk about how people can get involved…. Read more

gender and health, Gender equity, health systems
Gender
Health
Social Protection
Haja Wurie on incorporating gender into health systems reconstruction in post-Ebola Sierra Leone
HEART talks
February 15, 2016

Dr Haja Wurie is based at the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In this HEART talks video she describes the rebuilding of health systems in the post-conflict period in Sierra Leone as ‘fire-fighting’. This meant that the response did not adequately capture gender. Ensuring service provision for women and… Read more

Ebola, gender and health, Sierra Leone
Gender
Health
Social Protection
The importance of understanding gender equity in humanitarian responses to health issues
HEART talks
February 10, 2016

Valerie Percival is an Assistant Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. She leads the ReBUILD project ‘Building Back Better: Taking forward empirical research on the opportunities and constraints for building gender responsive health systems in post conflict contexts’. This is the focus of Valerie’s HEART talks video. The first issue for humanitarian focus… Read more

Gender, gender and health, gender-based violence, Post-Conflict, reconstruction
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