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  Global health partnerships: the UK contribution to health in developing countries

  Department of Health, UK, 2007

  This report, published by the United Kingdom’s (UK) Department of Health, examines how the UK’s experience and expertise in health can be used to best effect to support developing countries. It sets out examples of individual and National Health Service (NHS) partnerships working to improve health and share learning, and reviews the need to strengthen health systems in developing countries.
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  Stigmatisation and access to health care in Latin America: challenges and perspectives

  Pan American Health Organization, 2005

  This study examines the importance of stigma associated with mental illness as a barrier to accessing health services and identifies ways to reduce exclusion from health care as a result of stigma. The paper explores how stigma might prevent people with mental disorders from using health services.
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  Reducing AIDS-related stigma and discrimination in Indian hospitals

  Population Council, USA, 2006

  This Population Council report identifies strengths and limitations of services for HIV infected individuals in hospitals in India. Stigma and discrimination against HIV-positive people and those perceived to be infected are common in hospitals and act as barriers to seeking and receiving critical treatment.
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  A literature review of district health systems in East and Southern Africa: facilitators and barriers to participation in health

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2007

  This Equinet paper reviews evidence on community voice, roles and participation in primary health care and district health systems in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines facilitators and barriers to participation. The paper finds that governments developed policies for dealing with community participation in local health care, but there was little, if any, implementation of these policies.
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  Does a competitive voucher program for adolescents improve the quality of reproductive health care?: a simulated patient study in Nicaragua

  BMC Public Health, 2006

  This study, published in BMC Public Health, evaluates the impact and sustainability of a competitive voucher programme on the quality of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care for poor and underserved female adolescents. Vouchers were distributed to adolescents in disadvantaged areas that gave free-of-charge access to SRH care in four public, ten non-governmental and five private clinics.
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  Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for maternal and neonatal health in developing countries

  British Medical Journal, 2005

  This paper examines the costs and benefits of interventions for maternal and newborn health in developing countries. The analysis includes 21 interventions which target the health related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the effects of these interventions are estimated through their impact on incidence, remission and case fatality of maternal and neonatal conditions.
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  Women and international migration in the health sector

  Public Services International, 2004

  This report from Public Services International documents how the global migration of health workers is adversely affecting the quality of health care delivery and the employment conditions of women health workers.
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  Perceptions of health workers about conditions of service: a Namibian case stud

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2006

  This discussion paper from the Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) examines the influence that conditions of service have on the retention of health care professionals in Namibia.
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  Improving female recruitment, participation, and retention among peer educators in the Geração BIZ Program in Mozambique

  Pathfinder International, 2006

  This report from Pathfinder International outlines an intervention to boost the number of young women participating as peer workers in a youth work project in Mozambique.
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  What makes a good employer?

  International Council of Nurses, 2005

  This report from the Global Nursing Review Initiative examines the question of how to develop effective human resource management (HRM) in the health sector. It brings together a broad range of evidence on the most effective HRM interventions and indicators, and on the measurements that can be applied to these.

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