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Claims on health care: a decision-making framework for equity, with application to treatment for HIV/AIDS in South Africa
S.M. Cleary;G.H. Mooney;D.E. McIntyre / Health Policy and Planning, 2011
Trying to determine how best to allocate resources in health care i...
Assessing the population health impact of market interventions to improve access to antiretroviral treatment
Health Policy and Planning, 2011
Despite global progress in increasing coverage of antiretroviral treatment (ART), the majority of people nee...
Meanings of blood, bleeding and blood donations in Pakistan: implications for national vs. global safe blood supply policies
Z. Mumtaz;S. Bowen;R. Mumtaz / Health Policy and Planning, 2011
While contemporary policy asserts that blood donation by voluntary, non-remunerated, anonymous donors from l...
User fee removal in the health sector in low-income countries: lessons from recent national initiatives
B. Meessen;L. Gilson;A. Tibouti / Health Policy and Planning, 2011
This supplement, sponsored by Unicef, focuses on the challenges related to the design and implementation of user fee removal policies. ...
National policy-makers speak out: are researchers giving them what they need?
Adnan A. Hyder;Adrijana Corluka;Peter J. Winch / Health Policy and Planning, 2010
This empirical study, published in the Health Policy and Planning journal, was undertaken to better understand the perspectives and attitudes of policy-makers towards the use and impact of research in...
Midwifery provision in two districts in Indonesia: how well are rural areas served?
K. Makowiecka / Health Policy and Planning, 2007
Attention has focused recently on the importance of adequate and equitable provision of health personnel to raise levels of skilled attendance at delivery and thereby reduce maternal mortality. Indone...
Franchising of health service in developing countries
D. Montagu / Health Policy and Planning, 2002
This paper provides an introduction to the franchising of family planning services in developing countries and explores which aspects of a franchise’s context, business design, and market pos...
The effects of global health initiatives on country health systems: a review of the evidence from HIV/AIDS control
Regien G Biesma;Ruairı´ Brugha;Andrew Harmer / Health Policy and Planning, 2009
This paper, published by the Health Policy and Planning journal, reviews country-level evidence about the impact of global health initiatives (GHIs), which have had profound effects on recipient count...
Primary health care vs. emergency medical assistance: a conceptual framework
W. Van Damme;W. Van Lerberghe;M. Boelaert / Health Policy and Planning, 2002
Primary health care (PHC) and emergency medical assistance (EMA) are discussed as two fundamentally different strategies of delivering health care. PHC is conceptualised as part of overall developm...
Why should the poor insure? Theories of decision-making in the context of health insurance
P. Schneider / Health Policy and Planning, 2004
Increasingly, low- and middle-income countries are looking to community-based health insurance (CBHI) as a means of ensuring access to health care for poor people. However, little evidence exists abou...

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