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  Multiple public-private job-holding of health care providers in developing countries: an exploration of theory and evidence

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This review examines the systemic and individual causes of multiple jobholding (MJH) and evidence on its prevalence through an analysis of country-level conditions. The paper places MJH in the context of health systems and government policies in low and middle-income countries, including Zambia, Indonesia, Egypt, Bangladesh, India, Poland, Kenya and Mexico.
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  Challenges of the private health plans regulation in Brazil

  Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2004

  This paper discusses the possible ways in which the National Agency of Supplemental Health (ANS), a regulatory body created in 2000, can help ameliorate the impact of Brazil’s economic crisis on the health plan industry.
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  Health communication insights: information and communication technologies for the developing world

  Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 2004

  Published by the Center for Communication Programs (CCP), this report is the first in a new series entitled “Health and Communication Insights”.
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  Reaching universal coverage via social health insurance: key design features in the transition period

  World Health Organization, 2004

  This paper, produced by the World Health Organisation, discusses the process of extending specific social health insurance (SHI) programmes in low and middle-income countries to cover entire populations.
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  Accreditation of providers for the national health insurance fund of Tanzania

  Management Sciences for Health, 2000

  This report, produced by Management Sciences for Health (MSH), discusses the process of accreditation for health service providers with specific reference to the national health insurance fund (NHIF) of Tanzania. The report reviews the critical elements of assessment, along with the NHIF Act requirements, and current means of registering and evaluating health providers in Tanzania.
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  Implementation of hospital reform policies: lessons of experience

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2004

  This London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) paper reviews evidence from hospital reform studies in four countries: UK, Zambia, Indonesia and Columbia. It considers the argument the market forces model of reform increases efficiency through strengthening incentives.
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  The role of pilot programs: approaches to health systems strengthening

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2004

  This report documents PRHPlus experience with pilot programmes in strengthening health systems. Chapter one draws upon these experiences and a broader PRHPlus literature review of pilot programmes, in order to develop a conceptual framework to assist with the designing and planning of these pilot programmes. The study also features case studies of three health system reform pilots.
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  Women's reasons for not participating in follow up visits before starting short course antiretroviral prophylaxis for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV: qualitative interview study

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This publication aims find out why pregnant women attending a public antenatal clinic in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire do not participate in necessary follow up visits before starting antiretroviral prophylaxis.
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  Linking disease control programmes in rural Africa: a pro-poor strategy to reach Abuja targets and millennium development goals

  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2004

  This article from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine examines how linking disease control programmes could advance progress towards achieving the targets for malaria reduction endorsed at the Abuja summit in 2000.
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  Community development and its impact on health: South Asian experience

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This UNICEF article charts the rise of community based health care in South Asia, and examines the relationship between community development and improvements in health indicators in South Asia over recent decades.

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