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  Public expenditure for development results and poverty reduction

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  Review and case studies of "Results-oriented (or ‘performance’ or ‘output’) budgeting": the planning of public expenditures for the purpose of achieving explicit and defined results. These policies have often been first implemented through sector-wide approaches (SWAps), particularly in health and education.
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  Primary care groups: improving the quality of care through clinical governance

  British Medical Journal, 2001

  The UK government is attempting to monitor and improve the quality of health care through a challenging strategy of clinical governance, so how is this being adopted by primary care groups?
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  Public-private partnerships for public health

  Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, 2002

  Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are becoming a popular mode of tackling large, complicated, and expensive public health problems. However, little is known about the conditions when partnerships succeed, about the strategies for structuring partnerships, or about the ethical underpinnings of partnerships.
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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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  HIV/AIDS, economics and governance in South Africa: key issues in understanding response. A literature review

  Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2002

  This review of economic research on HIV/AIDS in South Africa states that its aims were: to identify completed and ongoing research conducted on the economic aspects of HIV/AIDS and its implications for governance in South Africaprovide a comprehensive bibliography of literature in the areamake a preliminary assessment of the quality of the existing research, to identify trends and
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  Interviewing and counselling at the grass roots

  Network Learning, 2001

  This document, available in English, French and Somali, is aimed at people working with and wishing to improve their skills in interviewing and counselling. It provides practical information on interviewing and counselling for a number of groups as well as a section on role plays and check lists.Counselling issues covered include working with depression, the elderly, children and carers.
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  Suffering in silence: the links between human rights abuses and HIV transmission to girls in Zambia

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  This document reports on high rates of sexual violence and coercion against girls in Zambia as a significant causal factor in the extremely high rates of HIV infection among that group.The report documents girls' testimonies of several categories of abuse that heighten girls’ risk of HIV infection, includingsexual assault of girls by family members, particularly the shocking and all too
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  Georgia: health briefing paper

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 1999

  Prior to independence Georgia enjoyed one of the highest living standards and levels of per capita income in the Former Soviet Union (FSU). However, independence in 1991 was accompanied by a civil war in the regions of Abkhazia and Ossetia. This lasted until 1994, culminating in the formation of autonomous regions, and left Georgia with a disrupted economy.
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  China: health briefing paper

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2000

  China’s population of 1.2 billion is the largest in the world. Population growth is relatively low however, as a result of the strenuous efforts of the government to control population growth, which was reflected in the ‘one child policy’.
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  Cambodia: health briefing paper

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2000

  Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in South East Asia – with about 40 per cent of households living below the poverty line. The poverty of Cambodians reflects the recent history, with over 30 years of civil war and genocide.

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