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  Health-care systems: lessons from the reform experience

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003

  This study presents a broad overview of health-system reforms in OECD countries over the past several decades.
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  Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook

  World Bank, 2003

  This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS.
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  You get what you can pay for: cost recovery and the crisis of service delivery in South Africa

  2002

  This paper outlines the theory and practice of cost recovery in South Africa as it applies to basic municipal services such as water, electricity, sanitation and waste management.
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  The interface between health sector reform and human resources in health

  Human Resources for Health, 2003

  The impact of health sector reform has modified critical aspects of the health workforce, including labour conditions, degree of decentralisation of management, required skills and the entire system of wages and incentives.
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  Questionable assumptions : why health sector reforms have failed to deliver in Kenya

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The Kenyan government is committed to providing health services to all its citizens. But despite major health sector reforms, the population’s health status is falling. Researchers from the Tropical Institute of Community Health and Development, Kisumu, Kenya, explore the reasons for this lack of success.
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  Decentralisation and its implications for reproductive health: the Philippines experience

  Reproductive Health Matters, 2003

  This paper, from Reproductive Health Matters (RHM), examines the decentralisation of the Philippines health sector that took place in the 1990s. The paper looks at the impact of decentralisation on the financing and delivery of services, institutional capacity, health personnel, quality of care, and local representation.
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  WHO Report 2003: global tuberculosis control: surveillance, planning, financing

  National Trade Databank, USA, 2003

  This is the 7th WHO annual report on global TB control. It includes data on case notifications and treatment outcomes from all national control programmes that have reported to WHO, together with an analysis of plans, finances, and constraints on DOTS expansion for 22 high-burden countries (HBCs).
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  World Development Report 2004: making services work for poor people

  World Development Report, World Bank, 2003

  This issue of the WDR focuses on policies for improving the access of poor people to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity.The report focuses on the three ways in which services can be improved:By increasing poor clients’ choice and participation in service delivery, so they can monitor and discipline providers: School vouche
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  Fairly fair? Approaches to health equity in Namibia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Many health inequalities are due to unequal access to society’s resources. In theory, they are avoidable – but how? The international community tends to define health equity as ‘equality of health status’. But is this the most useful approach in developing countries? Researchers working with Namibia’s Ministry of Health and Social Services (MHSS) think not.
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  Who can farmers turn to for sound advice?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Governments that have privatised their extension and advisory services still try to influence decisions that farmers take relating to agriculture, environmental issues, food safety and rural development.

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