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  Humanitarian charter and minimum standards in disaster response: chapters one and four

  International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2004

  This updated edition of the Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response sets out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian assistance. Chapters one and four focus on minimum standards in water, sanitation and hygiene, and in health services.
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  Monitoring and evaluation of decentralization reforms in developing country health sectors

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2004

  The purpose of this paper, from Partners for Health Sector Reform/plus, is to provide planners, policymakers and researchers with guidance on measuring and evaluating decentralisation reforms in the health sector. The paper presents basic information on the rationales and definitions of different forms of decentralisation, as well as country experiences with health sector decentralisation.
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  The World Medicines Situation

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This review from the World Health Organization (WHO) presents available evidence on the global production, research and development, international trade and consumption of pharmaceuticals. This is the second review by the WHO on the situation of medicine globally.
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  Scientific and technical principles for fixed dose combination drug products

  UK Global Health, 2004

  This Global Health document aims to facilitate and promote the development of fixed dose combinations (FDCs) by outlining key principles in their development, evaluation and consideration. These principles, which focus on efficacy, safety and quality, are explored through four scenarios.
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  The pharmaceutical industry as a political player

  The Lancet, 2002

  This article from the Lancet outlines how current regulatory systems are not sufficiently robust in their political relations with the pharmaceutical industry, and makes recommendations on how to address this.
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  Utilizing TRIPS flexibilities for public health protection through South-South regional frameworks

  South Centre, 2004

  This study from the South Centre outlines how regional co-operation provides a potential solution to the problems posed to the health systems of developing countries by the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) agreement.The Doha Declaration of 2001 established a degree of flexibility in the application of the TRIPS patenting laws to medicine.
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  International comparative review of health care regulatory systems

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 1997

  This Partnerships for Health Reform plus (PHRplus) report reviews international models and experiences of health care regulation development and implementation. The report explores the concept of health care regulations and details the most universally common approaches for putting them into practice. These include licensing, accreditation, and certification.
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  Does regulation effect economic outcomes?: the case of dentistry

  Journal of Law and Economics, 2000

  This study, published in the Journal of Law and Economics, examines the effects of licensing policies on the quality of consumer services. It also examines how restrictive regulation affects the price of certain services and practitioner earnings.
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  Quality and accreditation in health care services: a global review

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This World Health Organization report is intended to provide a snapshot of health systems quality and accreditation in health care. The first section of the report describes current structures and activities used at national and international levels around the world to promote quality in health care.
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  Bridging the gap: participation in social care regulation

  Cabinet Office, 2004

  This study by the Better Regulation Task Force focuses on adult social care and examines how people receiving care could participate more effectively in the regulation of their care. The study establishes the regulatory framework in the UK and explores why participation in regulation is important.

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