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    Primary health care for older people: a participatory study in 5 Asian countries

    HelpAge International Asia, Pacific Regional Development Centre, 2008
    This study documents the perceptions of older people, care-givers, and health service providers in terms of knowledge of active and healthy ageing, access and quality of Primary Health Care (PHC) services.  It particularly looks at the increasing experiences of older people in managing stroke and diabetes conditions.
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    Managing the health Millennium Development Goals - the challenge of management strengthening: lessons from three countries

    World Health Organization, 2007
    This World Health Organization study describes various activities aimed towards strengthening the management of health service delivery in three countries: South Africa, Togo and Uganda.
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    Strengthening district health system through management interventions

    Indian Institute of Health Management Research, India, 2005
    This paper by the Institute of Health Management Research aims to develop and test key management interventions in order to improve the performance, efficiency and effectiveness of primary health care delivery at Hoshangabad district in Madhya Pradesh.
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    A national survey of the impact of rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy on health-care workers in Malawi: effects on human resources and survival

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2007
    This paper from the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to assess the human resources impact of Malawi’s rapidly growing antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme and balance this against the survival benefit of health-care workers who have accessed ART themselves.
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    Financing public health care: insurance, user fees or taxes? Welfare comparisons in Tanzania

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2007
    This paper, published by Research for Poverty Alleviation (REPOA), compares the welfare effects of a community based insurance scheme - the Community Health Fund (CHF) - and user fees for public health care in Tanzania. Under the CHF, households pay a predetermined fixed annual premium for free access to public health facilities.
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    Mongolia: health system review

    European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2007
    This report, published by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, describes the Mongolian health system and the reforms and policy initiatives in progress. It covers issues including financing, planning and regulation, physical and human resources, provision of services, and principal health care reforms.
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    Community health workers: a review of concepts, practice and policy concerns

    Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems, 2007
    This paper, prepared for the International Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems, provides an overview of the concepts and practice of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in several developing and developed countries.
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    The way forward

    The Lancet, 2007
    This paper is the fourth in a series of Lancet papers about the importance of collecting data for health development. The paper outlines courses of immediate action towards achieving comprehensive civil registration in different contexts.
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    A scandal of invisibility: making everyone count by counting everyone

    The Lancet, 2007
    This paper is the first in a series of Lancet papers about the importance of collecting data for health development. The absence of reliable data on numbers of births and numbers and causes of death render most of the world’s poor people as unseen, uncountable, and hence uncounted.
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    Interim measures for meeting needs for health sector data: births, deaths, and causes of death

    The Lancet, 2007
    In many developing countries, effective civil registration systems that provide information about population health do not exist. This paper, the third in a series of Lancet papers focusing on collecting data for health development, examines the interim approaches that have been used to fill these information gaps.

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