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  Market development approaches scoping report

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2006

  This paper, produced for the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, explores how market development approaches (MDAs) for reproductive health commodities, can contribute to financial sustainability, improved access and expanded choice.
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  What evidence is there about the effects of health care reforms on gender equity, particularly in health?

  Health Evidence Network, WHO, 2005

  This review article, published by the World Health Organization, assesses the impact of four key health care reforms – decentralisation, financing, privatisation and priority setting – on gender equity in health.
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  Using global media to reach youth: the 2002 MTV Staying Alive campaign

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2006

  This paper, published by YouthNet, examines the effects of a 2002 media campaign aiming to increase awareness of HIV and AIDS, encourage prevention behaviour, reduce HIV-related stigma and discrimination, and to empower young people to take action. The campaign was conducted using the international television network MTV.
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  Iraq Health Update

  Medact, 2006

  This update reviews the Iraq health situation since 2005. The paper highlights the following health related consequences of the war: The author argues that the disastrous security situation has paralysed the Iraqi health sector.
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  Securing health: lessons from nation building- missions

  RAND Corporation, 2006

  This document analyses the activities that countries, international institutions, and non-governmental organizations undertake in rebuilding public health and health care delivery systems after major conflict.
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  Gender, caste, class and health care access: experiences of rural households in Koppal district, Karnataka

  Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, 2005

  This study examines access to health care in Koppal, Karnataka, and focuses specifically on gender, caste, class, age and life stage as categories of analysis. The paper draws on a large household survey conducted in 56 villages in the region.
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  Segmentation and a total market approach

  Population Services International, 2006

  This paper from Population Services International (PSI) outlines a method for segmenting populations as part of a Total Market approach to designing, managing and evaluating reproductive and sexual health interventions in developing countries. The approach is demonstrated using data from South Africa. Until now market segmentation analysis has mainly focused on people’s ability to pay.
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  Skilled attendant at birth 2006 updates

  World Health Organization, 2006

  This factsheet, published by the World Health Organization, reports the latest data on the proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel, for countries, regions and sub-regions. Along with maternal mortality rates, this data is used as an indicator of progress towards the fifth Millennium Development Goal, which aims to improve maternal health.
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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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  People in transition: reforming education and health care

  World Bank, 1996

  This article, published by the World Bank, examines the education and health care systems of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the former Soviet Union and China, the problems that have arisen during the transition to a market-based economy in these countries, and argues that reforms are needed.

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