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  Development and strengthening of human resources management in the health services

  Pan American Health Organization, 2001

  The quality of health services depends on the performance of health service workers, but little attention has been paid to improving how human resources are managed in the health sector. A document by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) looks at the situation in the Pan-American region, and outlines actions for improving the institutions which manage health sector workers.
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  Clinical governance in primary care: improving quality in the changing world of primary care

  British Medical Journal, 2000

  What is the meaning of “clinical governance” in primary health care and how is quality health care to be defined?
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  New products into old systems: the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) from a country perspective

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) aims to expand the use of under-utilised vaccines in seventy-four developing countries whilst supporting the development of other vaccines, but what have the experiences of recipient countries been of GAVI?
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  When staff is underpaid: dealing with the individual coping strategies of health personnel

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2002

  Health sector workers respond to inadequate salaries and working conditions by developing various individual ‘‘coping strategies’’—some, but not all, of which are of a predatory nature. This paper in the World Health Organization (WHO) Bulletin, reviews what is known about these practices and their potential consequences (competition for time, brain drain and conflicts of interest).
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  Contracting for primary care medicines management in Albania: lessons learned and transferable principles

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2000

  At the onset of its transition to a democratic society and a market economy in 1991, Albania inherited a medical system based on the Soviet model, centrally controlled, with emphasis on large numbers of doctors and the provision of large numbers of hospital beds. Health outcomes were poor. To address the problem, in 1993 the government embarked on reforming the health services.
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  Practical issues in contracting for primary health care delivery: lessons from two large projects in Bangladesh

  World Bank, 2002

  There is increasing interest in developing countries, in contracting with NGOs and the for-profit private sector to deliver primary health care (PHC) including nutrition and family planning services.
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  Human resources in the health sector: an international perspective

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2002

  If poverty cannot be eradicated without a sound macroeconomic context, neither can health care improve without stronger focus on human resources (HR). This is the central thesis of this issues paper produced for the Department for International Development (DFID) by the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre (HSRC).
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  Assessing the health of the poor: towards a pro-poor measurement strategy

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2001

  How is poverty and poor people’s health measured? What problems are encountered and what tools are available to assist in the collection of data in the developing world?
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  Review of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach: main findings

  Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2002

  Summary of findings from official review of PRSP processes.
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  How health workers earn a living in China

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  This summary was produced by id21.Under the command economy all government health workers in China earned similar salaries. Twenty years of transition to a socialist market economy, including liberalisation of the labour market, has led to growing income differences. An Institute of Development Studies working paper explores how this has affected health workers.

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