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    The role of the hospital in a changing environment

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2000
    Hospitals pose many challenges to those undertaking reform of health care systems. This paper from the WHO Bulletin examines the evolving role of the hospital within the health care system in industrialised countries and explores the evidence on which policymakers might base their decisions.
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    25 years of essential medicines progress

    Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy, WHO, 2003
    The historic first meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on the Selection of Essential Drugs took place in Geneva in 1977. Today, more than 150 countries have adopted the concept and developed their own national lists of essential medicines.This special issue of the Essential Drugs Monitor, produced by the WHO, celebrates 25 years of the essential medicines concept.
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    The impact of medical technologies on the future of hospitals

    British Medical Journal, 1999
    During the next decade diseases requiring medical intervention will be much the same as those being treated today. The site of care may, however, be moved away from the community general hospital to a non-hospital site or to a specialty hospital at a distance.
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    The application of geographical information systems to important public health problems in Africa

    International Journal of Health Geographics, BioMed Central, 2002
    This article, published in the International Journal of Health Geographics by BioMed Central, considers the application of geographical information systems (GIS) technology to health research and planning in Africa.
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    Medium term expenditure frameworks: from concept to practice. preliminary lessons from Africa

    Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 2002
    Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEFs) are receiving renewed attention in the context of the formulation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.
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    Reforming hospital systems in turbulent times

    London School of Economics (=British Library for Political and Economic Science (BLPES)), 2001
    The countries of central and eastern Europe and central Asia have embarked, to varying extents over the last decade, on a process of restructuring their hospital dominated health care systems. In doing so they have, however, encountered considerable barriers.
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    Benefit incidence analysis: how can it contribute to our understanding of health systems performance?

    Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2002
    Most analysis of national healthcare systems performance is based on national health accounts, which do not necessarily show who benefits from healthcare spending. Benefit Incidence Analysis (BIA) can be used in addition, to assess how much healthcare spending actually reaches the poor.
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    Results-orientated budget practice in OECD countries

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    Over the last twenty years, budgetary reform in OECD countries has involved an increasing emphasis on outputs and outcomes but not at the expense of an inputs focus. This change in emphasis requires a focus on programme performance in addition to traditional focuses on administrative control and procedures.
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    How, when and why does poverty get budget priority: poverty reduction strategy and public expenditure in five African countries: synthesis paper

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    This paper from the Overseas Development Institute synthesises the key findings from case studies in five countries (Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda), examining how public expenditure management (PEM) has been linked to poverty reduction policy goals.
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    Scaling up antiretroviral treatment in the public sector in Nigeria: a comprehensive analysis of resource requirements

    Partners for Health Reformplus, 2004
    This report from Partners for Health Reformplus presents estimates of the total cost of providing comprehensive antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in the public sector in Nigeria.

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