Future Health Systems: Recent submissions
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Strengthening Health Systems for Resilience
(IDS, 2015-02)In countries with high levels of poverty or instability and with poor health system management and governance, people are highly vulnerable to shocks associated with ill health, including major epidemics. An effective ... -
Access and barriers to immunization in West Bengal, India: quality matters
(International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, 2013-12-31)While many studies attempted to evaluate performance of immunization programmes in developing countries by full coverage, there is a growing awareness about the limitations of such evaluation, irrespective of the overall ... -
Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: why cure crowds out prevention
(BioMed Central, 2014-06-16)INTRODUCTION: This paper presents a system dynamics computer simulation model to illustrate unintended consequences of apparently rational allocations to curative and preventive services. METHODS: A modeled population ... -
Multiple Shocks, Coping and Welfare Consequences: Natural Disasters and Health Shocks in the Indian Sundarbans
(PLoS, 2014-08-29)Background: Based on a household survey in Indian Sundarbans hit by tropical cyclone Aila in May 2009, this study tests for evidence and argues that health and climatic shocks are essentially linked forming a continuum and ... -
Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: managing rural China health system development in complex and dynamic contexts
(Springer, 2014-08-26)Background: This paper explores the evolution of schemes for rural finance in China as a case study of the long and complex process of health system development. It argues that the evolution of these schemes has been the ... -
The application of systems thinking in health: why use systems thinking?
(Springer, 2014-08-26)This paper explores the question of what systems thinking adds to the field of global health. Observing that elements of systems thinking are already common in public health research, the article discusses which of the ... -
Institutional capacity for health systems research in East and Central Africa schools of public health: enhancing capacity to design and implement teaching programs
(Springer, 2014-06-02)BACKGROUND: The role of health systems research (HSR) in informing and guiding national programs and policies has been increasingly recognized. Yet, many universities in sub-Saharan African countries have relatively limited ... -
Institutional capacity for health systems research in East and Central African schools of public health: knowledge translation and effective communication
(Springer, 2014-06-02)BACKGROUND: Local health systems research (HSR) provides policymakers and practitioners with contextual, evidence-based solutions to health problems. However, producers and users of HSR rarely understand the complexities ... -
Institutional capacity for health systems research in East and Central African schools of public health: experiences with a capacity assessment tool
(Springer, 2014-06-02)BACKGROUND: Despite significant investments in health systems research (HSR) capacity development, there is a dearth of information regarding how to assess HSR capacity. An alliance of schools of public health (SPHs) in ... -
eHealth and mHealth initiatives in Bangladesh: A scoping study
(Springer, 2014-06-16)BACKGROUND: The health system of Bangladesh is haunted by challenges of accessibility and affordability. Despite impressive gains in many health indicators, recent evidence has raised concerns regarding the utilization, ... -
Accelerating learning for pro-poor health markets
(Springer, 2014-06-24)Background: Given the rapid evolution of health markets, learning is key to promoting the identification and uptake of health market policies and practices that better serve the needs of the poor. However there are significant ... -
Roundtable discussion: what is the future role of the private sector in health?
(Springer, 2014-06-24)Background: The role for the private sector in health remains subject to much debate, especially within the context of achieving universal health coverage. This roundtable discussion offers diverse perspectives from a ... -
Institutional capacity for health systems research in East and Central African Schools of Public Health: strengthening human and financial resources
(Springer, 2014-06-02)BACKGROUND: Despite its importance in providing evidence for health-related policy and decision-making, an insufficient amount of health systems research (HSR) is conducted in low-income countries (LICs). Schools of public ... -
Expecting the unexpected: applying the Develop-Distort Dilemma to maximize positive market impacts in health
(Oxford, 2012-08-12)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 ... -
Removing user fees for basic health services: a pilot study and national roll-out in Afghanistan
(Oxford, 2011-08-01)Background User fees for primary care tend to suppress utilization, and many countries are experimenting with fee removal. Studies show that additional inputs are needed after removing fees, although well-documented ... -
Better Guidance Is Welcome, but without Blinders
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Innovation in regulation of rapidly changing health markets
(Springer, 2014-06-24)The rapid evolution and spread of health markets across low and middle-income countries (LMICs) has contributed to a significant increase in the availability of health-related goods and services around the world. The support ... -
Private sector, for-profit health providers in low and middle income countries: can they reach the poor at scale?
(Springer, 2014-06-24)Background The bottom of the pyramid concept suggests that profit can be made in providing goods and services to poor people, when high volume is combined with low margins. To-date there has been very limited empirical ... -
Aid alignment: a longer term lens on trends in development assistance for health in Uganda
(Springer, 2013-02-20)Background Over the past decade, development assistance for health (DAH) in Uganda has increased dramatically, surpassing the government’s own expenditures on health. Yet primary health care and other priorities identified ... -
Unfree markets: Socially embedded informal health providers in northern Karnataka, India
(Elsevier, 2013-11-01)The dynamics of informal health markets in marginalised regions are relevant to policy discourse in India, but are poorly understood. We examine how informal health markets operate from the viewpoint of informal providers ...