Health systems related journals
- Rebuilding health systems to improve health and promote statebuilding in post-conflict countries: A theoretical framework and research agenda
- Kruk ME;Freedman LP;Anglin GA / Social Science and Medicine, 2010
- This paper argues that violent conflicts claim lives, disrupt livelihoods, and halt delivery of essential services, such as health care and education. To this end, the authors argue that health system...
- Utilization of HIV-related services from the private health sector: A multi-country analysis
- Wenjuan Wang;Sara Sulzbach;Susna De / Social Science and Medicine, 2011
- Increasing the participation of the private health sector in the AIDS response could help to achieve universal access to comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. This realisation not...
- School-based HIV prevention programmes for African youth
- M. Gallant;E. Maticka-Tyndale / Social Science and Medicine, 2003
- The high rate of HIV infection among youth in Africa has prompted both national and international attention. Education and prevention programmes are seen as the primary way of decreasing this...
- Understanding the impact of eliminating user fees: utilisation and catastrophic health expenditures in Uganda
- K. Xu;D.B. Evans;P. Kadama / Social Science and Medicine, 2006
- This paper explores whether the abolition of user fees in Uganda in March 2001 has led to greater access health facilities for poor people and has reduced the risks of catastrophic health expenditures...
- Gender bias among children in India in their diet and immunisation against disease
- V. K. Borooah / Social Science and Medicine, 2004
- This paper, published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, investigates gender differences in the likelihood of being immunised against disease (tuberculosis, polio, tetanus, and measles) and o...
- Careseeking for illness in young infants in an urban slum in India
- I. De Zoysa; N. Bhandari; N. Akhtari; M. K. Bhan / Social Science and Medicine, 1998
- Recommended reading
- This article, published in Social Science and Medicine, explores the constraints in securing effective care for severe illness in young infants, focusing on an urban slum in New Delhi, India. Finding...
- Cost-effectiveness of malaria control interventions when malaria mortality is low: insecticide-treated nets versus in-house residual spraying in India
- M.R. Bhatia; J. Fox-Rushby; A. Mills / Social Science and Medicine, 2004
- Recommended reading
- This article, published in Social Science and Medicine, compares the effectiveness and efficiency of in-house residual spraying (IRS) of insecticide and insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) as ways of cont...
- Committed to health for all? How the G7/G8 rate
- R. Labonte; T. Schrecker / Social Science and Medicine, 2004
- This article, published in Social Science and Medicine, reports on progress towards the goal of health for all, with specific reference to international development commitments made by the G7/G8 natio...
- Too far to walk: maternal mortality in context
- S. Thaddeus; D. Maine / Social Science and Medicine, 1994
- Recommended reading
- This paper, published in Social Science and Medicine, reviews the Prevention of Maternal Mortality Program, a collaboration between Columbia University's Center for Population and Family Health and mu...
- Circumstances of post-neonatal deaths in Ceara, Northeast Brazil: mothers health-care seeking behaviours during their infants fatal illness
- A. C. Terra de Souza; K. E. Peterson; F. M. O. Andrade; J. Gardner; A. Ascherio / Social Science and Medicine, 2000
- Recommended reading
- This paper, published in Social Science and Medicine, presents the results of a study examining the relationship between mothers' care-seeking behaviour and infant death from illness in Ceara, Northea...
