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Blog: A Fair Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance
Gerald BloomExisting anti-microbial drugs are becoming
ineffective. If current trends continue, we could end up reliving
conditions before the discovery of antibiotics, when infectious diseases
were major killers ...
Posted Apr 23, 2015, 7:53 AM by Karine Gatellier
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Working Paper: Addressing Resistance To Antibiotics In Pluralistic Health Systems
Gerald Bloom, Annie Wilkinson, Göran Tomson, Phyllis Awor, Xiulan Zhang, Syed Masud Ahmed Wasif Ali Khan, Victoria Blessing, Li Wang, Xiaoyun Liang, Stefan Peterson There is growing international concern about ...
Posted Apr 23, 2015, 7:51 AM by Karine Gatellier
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The role of the private sector in health systems
David
Bishai and Karampreet Sachathep
There
is a growing appreciation and recognition of the role of the private sector
in the development of better health systems and the improvement of ...
Posted Apr 23, 2015, 7:23 AM by Karine Gatellier
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An impact evaluation of medical insurance for poor in Georgia: preliminary results and policy implications
George Gotsadze, Akaki Zoidze,
Natia Rukhadze, Natia Shengelia and Nino Chkhaidze
Objective The objective of this article is
to assess the impact of the new health financing reform in Georgia ...
Posted Apr 23, 2015, 7:22 AM by Karine Gatellier
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A total market approach for condoms in Myanmar: the need for the private, public and socially marketed sectors to work together for a sustainable condom market for HIV prevention
Han Win Htat, Kim Longfield, Gary Mundy, Zaw Win, and
Dominic Montagu
Background Concerns about appropriate
pricing strategies and the high market share of subsidized condoms
prompted Population Services
International ...
Posted Apr 23, 2015, 7:20 AM by Karine Gatellier
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Further advances in knowledge on the role of the private sector in health systems
Birger C Forsberg and Dominic MontaguThis new supplement to Health Policy and Planning is an outcome of the Second Symposium on the Role of the Private Sector in Health ...
Posted Jul 18, 2014, 8:20 AM by Jeff Knezovich
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Safe motherhood voucher programme coverage of health facility deliveries among poor women in South-western Uganda
Lucy Kanya, Francis Obare, Charlotte Warren, Timothy Abuya, Ian Askew, and Ben BellowsThere has been increased interest in and experimentation with demand-side mechanisms such as the use of ...
Posted Jul 18, 2014, 8:17 AM by Jeff Knezovich
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Expansion in the private sector provision of institutional delivery services and horizontal equity: evidence from Nepal and Bangladesh
David R Hotchkiss, Deepali Godha and Mai DoWealth-related inequity in the use of maternal healthcare services continues to be a substantial problem in most low- and middle-income ...
Posted Jul 18, 2014, 8:16 AM by Jeff Knezovich
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The future of health markets
Sara Bennett, Gerald Bloom, Jeffrey Knezovich, David H PetersThis editorial introduces a new open collection in Globalization and Health on the topic of the future of health markets. In ...
Posted Jul 18, 2014, 9:13 AM by Jeff Knezovich
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Private sector, for-profit health providers in low and middle income countries: can they reach the poor at scale?
Elizabeth Tung, Sara BennettBackgroundThe bottom of the pyramid concept suggests that profit can be made in providing goods and services to poor people, when high volume is combined ...
Posted Jul 18, 2014, 9:11 AM by Jeff Knezovich
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Innovation in regulation of rapidly changing health markets
Gerald Bloom, Spencer Henson, David H PetersThe rapid evolution and spread of health markets across low and middle-income countries (LMICs) has contributed to a significant increase in the ...
Posted Jul 18, 2014, 9:09 AM by Jeff Knezovich
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Moving towards in-depth knowledge on the private health sector in low- and middle-income countries
Birger C Forsberg, Dominic Montagu and Jesper Sundewall The past two decades have seen a steady growth in attention to the private sector role within the overall health systems of ...
Posted Sep 2, 2012, 1:39 PM by Jeff Knezovich
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Role of the private sector in the provision of immunization services in low- and middle-income countries
Ann Levin and Miloud Kaddar The authors conducted a literature review on the role of the private sector in low- and middle-income countries. The review indicated that relatively few ...
Posted Sep 2, 2012, 1:37 PM by Jeff Knezovich
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Predicting performance in contracting of basic health care to NGOs: experience from large-scale contracting in Uttar Pradesh, India
Anna Heard, Maya Kant Awasthi, Jabir Ali, Neena Shukla, and Birger C Forsberg Escalating costs and increasing pressure to improve health services have driven a trend toward contracting with the ...
Posted Sep 2, 2012, 1:36 PM by Jeff Knezovich
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| Title | Description |
| Private Healthcare in Developing Countries | The purpose of this site is to supplement existing resources with objective, current, and comprehensive coverage of topics relating to private sector health services in developing countries. The resources pages of this site provide an introduction and overview of the topic. | | Nossal Institute for Global Health | Nossal supports improvements in the health of vulnerable communities in partnership, through research, education and inclusive development practice. They focus on priority areas in Asia-Pacific and Southern Africa, with most work taking place in India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Papua New Guinea and Mozambique. | | Center for Health Market Innovations | The Center for Health Market Innovations promotes policies and practices that improve privately delivered health care for the poor in low and middle income countries. It was founded in 2010 and operates through a global network of partners. The Center for Health Market Innovations is managed by the Results for Development Institute. | | Future Health Systems | Future Health Systems is a research consortium working to improve access, affordability and quality of health services for the poor. They are a partnership of leading research institutes from across the globe working in a variety of contexts: in low-income countries (Bangladesh, Uganda), middle-income countries (China, India) and fragile states (Afghanistan) to build resilient health systems for the future. Their website has an extensive list of resources on health markets. | | SHOPS | The Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project is USAID's flagship initiative in private sector health. It works to involve nongovernmental organizations and for-profit entities in addressing the many health needs of people in developing countries. SHOPS focuses on increasing availability, improving quality, and expanding coverage of essential health products and services in family planning and reproductive health, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, and other health areas through the private sector. Abt Associates leads the SHOPS team, which includes five partners: Banyan Global, Jhpiego, Marie Stopes International, Monitor Group, and O’Hanlon Health Consulting. |
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