Impact Initiative - Health: Recent submissions
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Reducing Health Inequalities in Brazil’s Universal Health-Care System: Accountability Politics in São Paulo
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-05-01)Brazil relies on the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), a public health-care system used by nearly 65 per cent of the population. This article analyses the role played by accountability mechanisms in expanding access to primary ... -
Accountability for Health Equity: Galvanising a Movement for Universal Health Coverage
(Institute of Development Studies, 2018-05-01)In July 2017, IDS hosted a workshop on ‘Unpicking Power and Politics for Transformative Change: Towards Accountability for Health Equity’, with the aim of generating dialogue and mutual learning among activists, researchers, ... -
The Impact of Development on Violent Nature
(OMICS International, 2012)It is well established that development impacts on disaster outcomes and our coping with extreme and uncertain natural hazards. Evidence includes through data available from the annual Human Development Reports of the ... -
Cyclone disaster vulnerability and response experiences in coastal Bangladesh
(Wiley, 2010)For generations, cyclones and tidal surges have frequently devastated lives and property in coastal and island Bangladesh. This study explores vulnerability to cyclone hazards using firsthand coping recollections from prior ... -
Making mHealth Work for All
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2017-05)Information and Communication technologies (ICTs) are going to have a major impact on health and health systems in the near future. To ensure that everyone (including the very poor) benefits from this new technology, it ... -
A Newcomer's Guide to Life Cycle Assessment - Baselines and Boundaries
(2013)Life cycle assessment (LCA) aims to understand the environmental impact of a product or service (termed a functional unit) over its entire life cycle - using ‘standard methodologies’. The concept of LCA is simple – ... -
Africa's Voices: Using mobile phones and radio to foster mediated public discussion and to gather public opinions in Africa
(2014)This paper presents the findings from a one-year applied research pilot project, Africa’s Voices, run by the University of Cambridge’s Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR). Africa’s Voices developed out of CGHR’s ...