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Income elasticity of health expenditures in Iran 27 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
Because of its policy implications, the income elasticity of health care expenditures is a subject of much debate. Governments may have an interest in subsidizing the care of those with low income. Us...
Community participation of cross-border migrants for primary health care in Thailand 27 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
This is the first report of the large-scale utilization of migrants as health volunteers in a migrant primary-healthcare program. The program recruited migrants who volunteered to serve their communit...
Parity and institutional delivery in rural Tanzania: a multilevel analysis and policy implications 27 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
Objectives We assess the extent to which the use of healthcare facilities for childbirth varies by parity, conditional on socio-economic, psychological and health characteristics. We also assess diffe...
Medicine sellers' perspectives on their role in providing health care in North-West Cameroon: a qualitative study 27 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
Background Increasing recognition of the importance of medicine sellers in low-resource settings has emerged alongside assumptions that their motives and capacities primarily relate to profit maximiza...
Transforming governance or reinforcing hierarchies and competition: examining the public and hidden transcripts of the Global Fund and HIV in India 27 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
Global health initiatives (GHIs) have gained prominence as innovative and effective policy mechanisms to tackle global health priorities. More recent literature reveals governance-related challenges a...
Brokering the boundary between science and advocacy: the case of intermittent preventive treatment among infants 27 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
The process of translating research into policy has gained considerable attention in recent years and a number of studies have investigated the nexus between the two ‘worlds’ of research and policy. O...
Combining user fees exemption with training and supervision helps to maintain the quality of drug prescriptions in Burkina Faso 27 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
To improve access to health care services, an intervention was implemented in Burkina Faso granting full exemption from user fees. Two further components, staff training and supervision, were added to...
Impact of performance-based financing on primary health care services in Haiti 27 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
To strengthen Haiti’s primary health care (PHC) system, the country first piloted performance-based financing (PBF) in 1999 and subsequently expanded the approach to most internationally funded non-go...
Repackaging exemptions under National Health Insurance in Ghana: how can access to care for the poor be improved? 27 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
For the past 10 years the Ghana Government has been trying to replace the old user fee system with an overall health insurance scheme, but one problem of the old system continues to bedevil the new po...
Quality of sick child care delivered by Health Surveillance Assistants in Malawi 27 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
Objective To assess the quality of care provided by Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs)—a cadre of community-based health workers—as part of a national scale-up of community case management of child...
