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- Can performance-based financing be used to reform health systems in developing countries?
- ( M. Ireland;E. Paul;B. Dujardin / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2011)
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Over the past 15 years, performance-based financing (PBF) has been implemented in an increasing number of developing countries as a means of improving health worker performance. This article resist...
- Community health workers monitor neonatal health in Bangladesh
- ( G. L. Darmstadt / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2009)
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Four million babies die each year in their first four weeks of life. Better neonatal survival requires cost-effective action at the community level and good links with the healthcare system. Traine...
- Country ownership and vertical programmes in health, health information and health research
- ( Andrew Kennedy;Carel IJsselmuiden / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2008)
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This paper, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, argues that in most low- and middle-income countries, foreign-funded initiatives determine national health research agendas, ...
- Shame or subsidy revisited: social mobilization for sanitation in Orissa, India
- ( Subhrendu K Pattanayak;Jui-Chen Yang;Katherine L Dickinson / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2009)
- This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, determines the effectiveness of a sanitation campaign that combines “shaming” (i.e. emotional motivators) with sub...
- A balanced scorecard for health services in Afghanistan
- ( D.H. Peters;A. A. Noor;L. P. Singh / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2007)
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The Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan has developed a balanced scorecard (BSC) to regularly monitor the progress of its strategy to deliver a basic package of health services. Although frequ...
- Exposure to physical and sexual violence and adverse health behaviours in African children: results from the Global School-based Student Health Survey
- ( D. W. Brown;L. Riley;A. Butchart / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2009)
- This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines associations between exposure to physical violence (PV) or sexual violence (SV) and adverse health behaviours among a...
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Special Theme: health information systems
- ( S. Stansfield;K. M. McGrail;C. Black;T. Williams / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2005)
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Over the past few years, there is growing recognition of the need for more investments in health information systems. This special theme Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) notes that w...
- Economic and programmatic aspects of congenital syphilis prevention
- ( G. Schmid / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2004)
- Congenital syphilis is a preventable disease and the tools to prevent it have been available for decades. This document in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization details how a review of th...
- Severe maternal morbidity from direct obstetric causes in West Africa: incidence and case fatality rates
- ( A. Prural;M. H. Bouvier - Colle;L. de Bernis;G. Bréat / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2000)
- Data on maternal morbidity make it possible to assess how many women are likely to need essential obstetric care, and permit the organization, monitoring and evaluation of safe motherhood programmes. ...
- Health information systems in humanitarian emergencies
- ( M. Thieren / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health , 2005)
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The production of health information is an important function of a health system. This paper from the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation (WHO) aims to address those Health Information S...
