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dc.contributor.authorBennett, Sara
dc.contributor.authorLagomarsino, Gina
dc.contributor.authorKnezovich, Jeffrey
dc.contributor.authorLucas, Henry
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-10T11:48:48Z
dc.date.available2014-12-10T11:48:48Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-24
dc.identifier.citationBennett, S., G. Lagomarsino, J. Knezovich and H. Lucas (2014) 'Accelerating learning for pro-poor health markets'. Globalization and Health 2014, 10:54  doi:10.1186/1744-8603-10-54en_GB
dc.identifier.issn1744-8603
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/5421
dc.descriptionCommentaryen_GB
dc.description.abstractBackground: 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 challenges to learning about health markets. We discuss the different forms that learning takes, from the development of codified scientific knowledge, through to experience-based learning, all in relationship to health markets. Discussion: Notable challenges to learning in health markets include the difficulty of acquiring data from private health care providers, designing evaluations that capture the complex dynamics present within health markets and developing communities of practice that encompass the diverse actors present within health markets, and building trust and mutual understanding across these groups. The paper proposes experimentation with country-specific market data platforms that can integrate relevant evidence from different data sources, and simultaneously exploring strategies to secure better information on private providers and health markets. Possible approaches to adapting evaluation designs so that they are better able to take account of different and changing contexts as well as producing real time findings are discussed. Finally capturing informal knowledge about health markets is key. Communities of practice that bridge different health market actors can help to share such experience-based knowledge and in so doing, may help to formalize it. More geographically-focused communities of practice are needed, and such communities may be supported by innovation brokers and/or be built around member-based organizations. Summary: Strategic investments in and support to learning about health markets can address some of the challenges experienced to-date, and accelerate learning that supports health markets that serve the poor.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipDFIDen_GB
dc.publisherSpringeren_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/en_GB
dc.subjectEconomic Developmenten_GB
dc.subjectHealthen_GB
dc.subjectPovertyen_GB
dc.titleAccelerating learning for pro-poor health marketsen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.rights.holder© 2014 Bennett et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.en_GB
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/10/1/54/abstracten_GB


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