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    Information and Communication Technology in Healthcare Management Systems: Prospects for Developing Countries

    International Journal of Computer Applications, 2010
    This paper explores the emerging technologies which are being used for the improvement of the healthcare process and identify the problems and their probable solutions specifically in the context of developing countries.
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    Social franchising to improve quality and access in private health care in developing countries

    Harvard School of Public Health, 2009
    Private provision of health care is omnipresent and surpasses public provision in many developing countries. This paper from Harvard Health Policy Review examines the ways in which public and private sectors can cooperate to improve the quality and accessibility of primary health care (PHC) to the poor in developing countries.
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    Clinical social franchising: an annual compendium of programs, 2009

    University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
    Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations engage private medical practitioners to add new services to the range of services they already offer.
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    Innovative Pro-Poor Healthcare Financing and Delivery Models

    Results for Development Institute, 2009
    In their efforts to improve health systems, developing countries face the challenge of integrating traditional government health resources with a large and growing private health sector, where many poor people seek care.
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    HIV in Pakistan: preventing a future epidemic in most-at-risk groups

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2009
    Very low levels of HIV and AIDS awareness and condom use, together with high-risk sexual behaviours in vulnerable groups such as injecting drug-users and sex workers, make Pakistan a potentially high-risk country for HIV spread. Current HIV prevalence is generally low but STI levels are high in some at-risk groups.
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    Introducing client-centered reproductive health services in a Pakistani setting

    Studies in Family Planning, 2005
    Poor quality of existing public reproductive health services in Pakistan deters many women from using services and contributes to poor reproductive health outcomes. This paper reviews an intervention designed to improve the quality of services by training health care providers to help clients meet their needs and eliminate barriers to service access and use.
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    Pakistan: study of non-state providers of basic services.

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2004
    This paper analyses the relationship between the government and non-state providers (NSPs) of basic services in Pakistan.
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    Communication for immunization campaigns for maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination: a guide to mobilising demand and increasing coverage

    Save the Children Fund, 2006
    This guide, published by Save the Children, describes how to design and carry out a social mobilisation programme to create demand and increase participation during immunisation campaigns and routine immunisations. The approach was developed and used in maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) immunisation campaigns in Ethiopia, Mali and Pakistan.
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    Market development approaches scoping report

    HLSP Institute, UK, 2006
    This paper, produced for the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, explores how market development approaches (MDAs) for reproductive health commodities, can contribute to financial sustainability, improved access and expanded choice.
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    Deep dive: an exploration for innovation

    Futures Group, 2005
    This case study provides an overview of the work of the Key Social Marketing (KSM) organisation in Pakistan. Since 1997 the organisation has aimed at raising awareness about, and the use of, three hormonal contraceptives among lower income population groups.

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