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Comparison of quality of care for patients in the veterans health administration and patients in a national sample
Quality assurance project: the impact of accreditation on the quality of hospital care : Kwazulu-Natal province, Republic of South Africa
Quality of obstetric care observed in 14 hospitals in Benin, Ecuador, Jamaica and Rwanda
Health care quality indicators: Project conceptual framework paper
Health care quality indicators project 2006: Data collection update report
Developing and implementing an accreditation program in Egypt
Licensure, Accreditation, and Certification: approaches to health services quality
Standards for health promotion in hospitals
What is important in evaluating healthcare quality? An international comparison of user view
Contracting and Public - Private Partnerships
Providing skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care to the poor through partnership with private sector obstetricians in Gujarat, India
Spanish health district tests a new public-private mix
Public and/or private health care: Tuberculosis patients' perspectives in Myanmar
Contracting private sector providers for public sector health services in Jalisco, Mexico: perspectives of system actors
Contracting between faith-based and public health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: an ongoing crisis?
Public hospitals: Options for reform through Public-Private Partnerships
Purchasing inpatient and outpatient care through hospitals
Experiences of contracting with the private sector. A selective review
Trends and opportunities in Public Private Partnerships (PPP) to improve health services in Africa
Renewing primary health care in the Americas
District Hospital System
Implementation of a structured paediatric admission record for district hospitals in Kenya: results of a pilot study
Tools for assessing the operationality of district health systems
Healthcare Access and Utilization
Mortality, violence and access to care in two districts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Optimization of preventive health care facility locations
Seasonal variation and hospital utilization for tuberculosis in Russia: hospitals as social care institutions
The influence of insurance status on waiting times in German acute care hospitals: an empirical analysis of new data
Temporal and geographic heterogeneity of the association between socioeconomic position and hospitalisation in Italy: An incomebased indicator
Social heterogeneity in self-reported health status and measurement of inequalities in health
The prisoner as patient - a health services satisfaction survey
Innovative service models to improve quality and access
Health inequities in the South East Asia region: selected country case study
Three methods to monitor utilization of healthcare services by the poor
Achieving progress in maternal and neonatal health through integrated and comprehensive healthcare services. Experiences from a program in northern Tanzania
Community perception and factors influencing utilization of health services in Uganda
Self-assessed health of immigrants in France
Globalization and social determinants of health: analytic and strategic review paper
Developing and implementing equity-promoting health care policies in China
The economic burden of illness for households in developing countries: a review of studies focusing on malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS
Measuring disparities in health status and in access and use of health care in OECD countries
Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health
Household-to-hospital continuum of maternal and newborn care
Equity, access to healthcare services and expenditures on health in Nicaragua (Angel-Urdinola et al)
Bangladesh: Inequalities in utilization of maternal services, Evidence from MATLAB (Anwar et al)
Reducing hospital beds: What are the lessons to be learned?
Inequalities in health care use and expenditures: empirical data from 8 developing countries and countries in transition
Rapid methods for monitoring the utilization of healthcare facilities by the poor: findings from a pilot project in rural Bangladesh
Health Human Resources
Challenges at work and financial rewards to stimulate longer workforce participation
Wanted: 2.4 million nurses, and that's just in India
Policy interventions that attract nurses to rural areas a multicountry discrete choice experiment
Evaluated strategies to increase attraction and retention of health workers in remote and rural areas
The role of nurses and midwives in polio eradication and measles control activities: a survey in Sudan and Zambia
Physicians' working conditions and job satisfaction: does hospital ownership in Germany make a difference?
Assessment of human resources management practices in Lebanese hospitals
How do general practitioners and specialists value their mutual communication? A survey
Hurdles at work: perceptions of hospital food handlers
A quantitative tool for workforce planning in healthcare: example simulation
Surgical task shifting in Sub Saharan Africa
Task shifting: the answer to the human resources crisis in Africa?
HIV and infant feeding counseling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in Northern Tanzania
Nurse staffing and quality of patient care
Information needs for health care workers in developing countries: a literature review with a focus on Africa
Idle Capacity in resource strapped government hospitals in Kerala: Size, distribution and determining factors
An experience of virtual leadership development for human resource managers
Measuring the inequalities in the distribution of health workers: the case of Tanzania
Human resources for health at the district level in Indonesia: the smoke and mirrors of decentralization
Mid-level providers in emergency obstetric and newborn health care: factors affecting their performance and retention within the Malawian health system
Work satisfaction of professional nurses in South Africa : a comparative analysis of the public and private sectors
Nursing brain drain from India
Human Resources for Health policies: A critical component in health policies (Dussault G et al)
Health Information Systems
Integrated health information systems in Tanzania : Experience and challenges
Health Insurance
Financial protection in health in rural China, 1978-2005. Trends and current status.
Step-wedge cluster-randomized community-based trials: an application to the study of the impact of community health insurance
Impact of SEWA's medical insurance fund on hospital utilization and expenditures. A household survey
Efficiency of Thai provincial public hospitals after the introduction of national health insurance program
Health System Financing
Role of cash in conditional cash transfer programmes for child health, growth, and development an analysis of Mexico's Oportunidades
When the patient falls out of bed, who pays?
What can be learned from data for financing of global health
Dynamic estimation of health expenditure: a new approach for simulating individual expenditure
Protecting pro-poor health services during financial crisis lessons from experience
Which health policies are pro-poor?
Can microcredit help improve the health of poor women? Some findings from a cross-sectional study in Kerala
Conditional cash transfers
Social health insurance versus tax-financed health systems Evidence from the OECD
Health Systems in East Asia What Can Developing Countries learn from Japan and the Asian Tigers
Health Service Delivery in China A Literature Review
Hospital governance and incentive design the case of corporatized public hospitals in Lebanon
Purchasing inpatient and outpatient care through hospital
Review of Health Care Provider Payment Reforms in China
Health financing in Thailand final integrated report
Health System Organisation
Clinical Handover: system change, leadership and principles
The Chalmers Oration 2009
Fixing the Public Hospital System in China
Provision of secondary care in fragile state contexts
A systematic review of the evidence on integration of targeted health interventions into health systems
Can economic evaluation in telemedicine be trusted A systematic review of the literature
Private sector health care in Indonesia
Making health markets work better for poor people improving provider performance
Strengthening health systems to promote security
The preferred doctor scheme a political reading of a French experiment of gate keeping
Impact of health care system on socioeconomic inequalities in doctor use
The Long-Term Care workforce: overview and strategies to adapt supply to a growing demand
Brazil Enhancing performance in Brazil's health sector Lessons from innovation in the state of Sao Paulo and the city of Curitiba
Service availability mapping in Uganda
The role of the hospital in a changing environment
Health Technologies
"We noticed that suddenly the country has become full of MRI". Policy makers' views on diffusion and use of health technologies in Iran
Provider performance and information and communication technologies
Telemedicine support for the developing word
Theory versus Practice: Discussing the governance of health technology assessment system
Hospital Autonomy
Monitoring and evaluating hospital autonomization and its effects on priority health services
Hospital autonomy in Ghana: The experience of Korle Bu and Komfo Anokye teaching hospitals
Hospital autonomy in India: The experience of APVVP hospitals
Hospital autonomy in Indonesia
Hospital autonomy in Kenya The experience of Kenyatta national hospital
Hospital Autonomy in Zimbabwe
Autonomy of Apex hospitals in Uganda too little, too slow
Hospital Costs
Analysis of Hospital costs a manual for managers
Estimating average inpatient and outpatient costs and childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea treatment costs in an urban health centre in Zambia
Hospital Global Budgeting (Dredge R)
Hospital Cost Functions for developing countries
Improving hospital management skills in Eritrea: costing hospital services
Public hospital costs and quality in the Dominican Republic
Hospital Management
Does type of ownership influence physicians' daily work schedules? An observational real-time study in German hospital department.
Lack of effective communication between communities and hospital in Uganda: a qualitative exploration of missing links
Improving imperfect data from health management information systems in Africa using space-time geostatistics
Configuring the hospital in the 21st century
An inquiry into good hospital governance: A New-Zealand-Czech comparison
Hospital management staffing and training issues
Economics and financial management: What do district managers need to know?
Strengthening management in Low income countries
Hospital governance in Latin America: Results from a four-nations survey
Hospital performance improvement: trends in quality and efficiency. A quantitative analysis of performance improvements in US hospitals
Analyse de la pertinence des hospitalisations dans la région de Monastir (Tunisie)
Improve health system performance through better care coordination
Hospital Performance
Does Competition Improve Public Hospitals’ Efficiency? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in the English National Health Service
Innovations to improve provider performance
How can hospital performance be measured and monitored?
Performance analyses of public hospital in the estate of Bahia with different organization models
The volume-outcome relationship in hospitals. Lessons from the literature
An international review of projects on hospital performance assessment
Better practices in performance improvement: cost and results analysis
How can hospitals performance be measured and monitored
Hospital performance in Brazil: The search for excellence
Hospital Reform
Health-Care systems: Lessons from the reform experiences
Health Sector reform: Improving hospital efficiency
Understanding organizational reforms - The corporatization of public hospitals (Harding SA et al)
Organizational reform in the Hungarian health sector: institutional analysis of Hungarian hospitals and the possibilities of corporatization (Rethelyi et al)
The introduction of market forces in the public health sector. From new public sector management to organizational reform
Implementation of hospital reform policies: Lessons of experience
Turkey: Reforming the health sector for improved access and efficiency
International Strategies
The health impacts of globalization: a conceptual framewor
Renewing primary health care in the Americas
An assessment of interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems
Working with the non-state sector to achieve health goals
Health in the developing world: achieving the MDG
Fiscal space and sustainability towards a solution for the health sector
Vaccines and drugs: characteristics of their use to meet public health goals
Local Production of pharmaceuticals: Industrial policy and access to medicines. An overview of key concepts, issues and opportunities for future research
Generic drug policies in Latin America
User Fees
Unofficial fees in Bangladesh: price, equity and institutional issues
Mobilizing resources for health: The case for user fees revisited
Waivers and exemptions for health services in developing countries
Access to healthcare for all? User fees plus a health equity fund in Sotnikum, Cambodia
Waivers, exemption and implementation issues under user fees for healthcare. Equity funds and other waiver systems in Cambodia