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Health systems and gender in post-conflict contexts: building back better?
Document Library
February 10, 2016

The post-conflict or post-crisis period provides the opportunity for wide-ranging public sector reforms: donors fund rebuilding and reform efforts, social norms are in a state of flux, and the political climate may be conducive to change. This reform period presents favourable circumstances for the promotion of gender equity in multiple social arenas, including the health… Read more

Gender, gender and health, gender-based violence, Post-Conflict, reconstruction
Gender
Health
Paying private obstetricians to provide emergency obstetric care to poor women: The Chiranjeevi Yojana public private partnership programme in Gujurat, India
HEART talks
February 9, 2016

Ayesha de Costa is an associate professor of Global Health and Senior Lecturer at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. She begins this lecture by noting the increasing importance of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) which can only work if it is of a high quality. EmOC should be able to provide: injectable antibiotics, injectable anticonvulsants, injectable oxytocics,… Read more

emoc, India, Maternal Health, ppp
DFID’s Evaluation Framework for Payment by Results
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December 9, 2015

DFID believes that PBR is an innovative delivery mechanism which can, in the right circumstances, be used to sharpen incentives for suppliers, and partner governments, to perform. Where it works best, PBR can shift the focus of commissioners and suppliers from inputs to outcomes – leading to real, tangible, measurable improvements in the areas which… Read more

payment by results
Health
Health Systems Strengthening: Lessons from three DFID research programme consortia
HEART talks
December 9, 2015

DfID is developing a framework for health systems strengthening. This roundtable discussion in June 2015 brought together HEART members to draw on their research findings to inform the framework. It was a response to an enquiry into DFID funded work to inform DFID programmes in a review. This HEART talks includes the presentations from three… Read more

comdis-hsd, DFID, Future Health Systems, health systems strengthening, rebuild
Health
Expecting the unexpected: applying the Develop-Distort Dilemma to maximize positive market impacts in health
Document Library
December 7, 2015

Although health interventions start with good intentions to develop services for disadvantaged populations, they often distort the health market, making the delivery or financing of services difficult once the intervention is over: a condition called the ‘Develop-Distort Dilemma’ (DDD). In this paper, the authors describe how to examine whether a proposed intervention may develop or… Read more

Bangladesh, China, health planning, Uganda
Health
Why health systems must change: addressing the needs of ageing populations in low- and middle-income countries
Document Library
December 7, 2015

The world’s population is ageing rapidly, with the over-60 population growing fastest. Since 2000, there have been more people aged 60 or over than children under 5. A rapidly ageing population presents large and unique challenges. This briefing discusses the results of pilot healthcare programmes in four countries, Cambodia, Mozambique, Peru and Tanzania. The findings… Read more

Ageing, health systems, Human Development, social development
Health
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, External review 2014
Assignment
November 21, 2015

The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (AHPSR) is an international independently governed collaboration situated in the Health Systems and Innovation cluster at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) headquarters in Geneva. Its overarching goal is to improve the health sectors of low and middle-income countries (LMICs) through the promotion and use of empirical health… Read more

Health policy, health systems, research alliance
Health
Cost-effectiveness of village health workers
Helpdesk Report
November 16, 2015

This report reviews the evidence of the cost effectiveness of village health workers. It found that the literature tends to use the term community health workers (CHWs) generally to encompass village health workers and other regional variations of a similar role. The reviews on this topic often use the term broadly where country programs operate… Read more

community health workers, zimbabwe
Health
One million community health workers. Technical task force report.
Document Library
November 16, 2015

This technical taskforce report focuses on providing broad cost guidance, deployment strategy and operational design considerations for Community Health Worker (CHW) subsystems as part of health system strengthening to achieve the MDGs in Africa. These considerations are summarised in the following 5 themes: Tight linkages with appropriately-financed local primary health care systems are crucial to… Read more

community health workers
Health
Somalia: Support to donor working group on Human Resources for Health – Remuneration, HR and payroll process issues related to the introduction of the ‘medium scenario’
Assignment
November 10, 2015

The purpose of this assignment was to support the Human Resources for Health (HRH) Donor Working Group to review the implications of the introduction of the medium-level pay scale for health workers on each of the programmes they fund in Somalia (with a focus on the Global Fund, GAVI, JHNP, Health Consortium for the Somali… Read more

hrh, human resources for health, Somalia
Health
Going universal: how 24 developing countries are implementing universal health coverage reforms from the bottom up
Document Library
November 3, 2015

This publication is about 24 developing countries that have embarked on the long journey toward universal health coverage (UHC) following a bottom-up approach, with a special focus on the poor and vulnerable. The publication documents and analyses the experiences of these countries based on a systematic data collection effort that sought to capture in great… Read more

developing countries, health systems, universal health coverage
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