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    Universal access: making health systems work for women

    BMC Public Health, 2012
    Universal coverage by health services is one of the core obligations that any legitimate government should fulfil vis-à-vis its citizens. However, universal coverage may not in itself ensure universal access to health care. Among the many challenges to ensuring universal coverage as well as access to health care are structural inequalities by caste, race, ethnicity and gender.
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    Helpdesk Report: National - and district - level funding in the health sector

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    Contact with health financing experts and a rapid literature search found no research that compares district level and national level donor funding. The literature suggests that effectiveness of funding at the national-level is likely to depend on how well central funds are disbursed and on the capacity of local services receiving the funds.
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    Helpdesk Report: Health architecture: current and future

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    DFID is mapping the current health architecture and identifying drivers that will influence the future architecture from 2015. This report was prepared to inform DFID on the strengths and weaknesses of the current global health architecture, and of the relevance and responsive of the health architecture for the post 2015 agenda.
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    Helpdesk Report: Nutrition interventions in developing and fragile contexts with a focus on community interventions and Yemen

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    This helpdesk query report identifies evidence on the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of different interventions to impact malnutrition, with a focus on: Prevention:
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    Helpdesk Report: Increasing facility - based deliveries and providing referral transport for women in childbirth in Asia

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    This report looks at approaches to increasing the proportion of baby deliveries which take place in health facilities, and the provision of referral transportation for women and childrento access healthcare for childbirth and for emergency obstetric care. The focus is on Asia and particularly South East Asia. Approaches to increasing facility based births:
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    Helpdesk Report: Ebola - local beliefs and behaviour change

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    This report focuses on the local beliefs and practices around illnesses and death, the transmission of disease and spirituality, which affect decision-making around health-seeking behaviour, caring for relatives and the nature of burials.  It also considers how this can inform effective behaviour change interventions for preventing Ebola in Sierra Leone.  Four key transmission pathway
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    Helpdesk Report: Mental health of women and girls in developing countries

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    Mental disorders contribute to 13 per cent of the global burden of disease worldwide. The majority-almost three quarters-of this burden occurs in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC). Gender is a critical determinant of mental health and mental illness. Gender dictates the differential power and control men and women have over the socioeconomic determinants of their mental health and lives.
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    Annotated bibliography of e-platforms used in participatory and peer to peer exchange and learning

    EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2014
    Visual and information technologies are now more diversified and widely accessible.
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    Ebola and lessons for development

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    As the Ebola crisis continues to unfold across West Africa and the international community belatedly responds, broader questions arise beyond the immediate challenges on the ground. These fundamentally challenge our understanding of ‘development’ as framed and practised in past decades.
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    Global governance and the limits of health security

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has exposed the limits of the current approach to the global governance of infectious diseases, which mixes public health and security interests. International efforts to strengthen ‘health security’ quickly faltered when confronted with weak national health systems.

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