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    Global Corruption Report 2006: corruption and health

    Transparency International, 2006
    This report, published by Transparency International, looks at the causes, scale and nature of corruption in health care, and considers ways to tackle it. Chapters include: corruption in hospitals and in the pharmaceutical sector; informal payments for health care; links with HIV and AIDS; and a number of country reports and recent research papers.
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    Global health watch 2005/06: an alternative world health report

    Global Health Watch, 2005
    Published by the Global Health Watch Secretariat, the Global Health Watch 2005/06 is the first “alternative world health report”, written from the perspective of civil society. It challenges the world’s major health institutions, addresses the causes of global inequality, and sets out measures for achieving adequate and equitable health for all.
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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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    Measuring the effects of behavior change and service delivery interventions in Guatemala with population-based survey results

    JHPIEGO Consortium, 2004
    This JHPIEGO report, presents the results from the Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) Programme conducted in Guatemala. This programme was also run in Nepal and Burkino Faso. The MNH programme promotes the use of skilled maternal and newborn care, family and community involvement in this care, as well as supportive government policies to sustain these efforts.
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    Impacts of Community Health Insurance Schemes on Health Care Provision in Rural Tanzania

    Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 2004
    This study examines community health funds (CHF) in Tanzania to evaluate the role of community health funds in lowering the barriers to access health care. The authors found that protection by the community schemes drastically increases participants’ demand for health care.
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    Health-care systems: lessons from the reform experience

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003
    This study presents a broad overview of health-system reforms in OECD countries over the past several decades.
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    The interface between health sector reform and human resources in health

    Human Resources for Health, 2003
    The impact of health sector reform has modified critical aspects of the health workforce, including labour conditions, degree of decentralisation of management, required skills and the entire system of wages and incentives.
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    Making the connection - decentralising the management of health information in low- income countries

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    How does the shift towards decentralisation of health services in low-income countries affect the way in which health information is managed? Researchers from the University of Sheffield investigated the effects of the introduction of a new health management information system (HMIS) into primary healthcare (PHC) and how it affected the role of local managers.
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    Decentralization and public services: the case of immunization

    World Bank, 2003
    This paper studies the impact of political decentralisation on childhood immunisation. The study confirms predictions in the theoretical literature about the negative impact of local political control on services that have public goods characteristics.
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    Poverty reduction outcomes in education and health: public expenditure and aid

    Overseas Development Institute, 2003
    This paper looks at the role of public expenditure programmes in the health and education sectors and their impact on poverty. It argues for a closer donor involvement at the sector level.The evidence reviewed shows that progress towards the MDGs has slowed in some low income countries, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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