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    Helpdesk Report: Cost effectiveness of malaria interventions

    Department for International Development, UK, 2010
    There have been many academic studies and analyses of malaria interventions and their cost effectiveness. Unfortunately however, as the studies have varying methodologies and countries of focus, they are difficult to compare. The information in this report outlines cost effectiveness data and conclusions.
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    Helpdesk Report: The use of mobile phones to improve communication from lower to higher tier health workers

    Department for International Development, UK, 2010
    mHealth refers to medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices.  Mobile phones and internet technology are being used in developing countries for health projects with some success. The bulk of the literature is on phones being used for workers to communicate with
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    Helpdesk Report: Costing family planning delivery in Nepal

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    It was not possible to identify a clear data set of rates for family planning interventions within the scope of this study. Relevant literature did not give very recent figures. Two benchmark rates were reported for family planning costs in Nepal:
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    Helpdesk Report: Libyan health service capacity

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    This report includes information on Libyan health service capacity, the health service response to the crisis, technical capacity of staff, reliance on foreign health workers, medical supply distribution system, decentralisation of services and the capacity of the private sector. The report is divided into the following sections:
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    Helpdesk Report: Pro-Poor health delivery

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    Information on pro-poor health policies does not fit neatly into mutually exclusive categories and many of the themes overlap. For example, universal coverage interventions such as abolishing user fees were often discussed as pro-poor targeting. Universal targeting can appear to be targeting the poor but it may be that the less poor are paying for higher quality services.
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    Helpdesk Report: Non communicable diseases

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    This report includes sections on:
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    Helpdesk Report: Incentives for improving the quality of health facilities

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    What types of incentive does evidence show have proved successful in raising the quality of services, at the levels of the district, the health facility, and of individual health workers? How have specific incentives modified outputs and outcomes?
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    Helpdesk Report: Health service standards

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    Minimum standards in healthcare are often referred to in documents but not expanded on in detail. This report covers the few documents that were found within the scope of this study that expanded on standards for healthcare.
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    Helpdesk Report: Health and education

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    There is little literature that specifically compares the two sectors – Health and Education – to draw out the commonalities and differences between them. The only paper that searches bring up is a conceptual discussion which is reviewed in section 2.
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    Reproductive Health Commodity Security (RHCS) country case studies synthesis: Cambodia, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia

    DFID Health Resource Centre (HRC), 2006
    Secure and sustained access to quality and affordable commodity supplies is a critical driver of reproductive and sexual health,as it is for child health and communicable disease treatment and prevention. Improved access to these commodities is essential for the success of wider efforts to scale up health services,in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

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