Research by Country or Region

Africa

Contracting between faith-based and public health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: an ongoing crisis?

Quest for quality : interventions to improve human resources for health among faith-based organizations

Surgical task shifting in Sub Saharan Africa

Step-wedge cluster-randomized community-based trials: an application to the study of the impact of community health insurance

Task shifting: the answer to the human resources crisis in Africa?

Improving imperfect data from health management information systems in Africa using space-time geostatistics

An experience of virtual leadership development for human resource managers

Tools for assessing the operationality of district health systems

Trends and opportunities in Public Private Partnerships (PPP) to improve health services in Africa

Americas

Renewing primary health care in the Americas

Asia

Health inequities in the South East Asia region:
selected country case studies

Experiences of contracting with the private sector. A selective review

Australia

Theory versus Practice: Discussing the governance of health technology assessment system

Bangladesh

Rapid methods for monitoring the utilization of healthcare facilities by the poor: findings from a pilot project in rural Bangladesh

Three methods to monitor utilization of healthcare services by the poor

Unofficial fees in Bangladesh : price, equity and institutional issues

Bangladesh: Inequalities in utilization of maternal services, Evidence from MATLAB (Anwar et al)

Benin

Quality of obstetric care observed in 14 hospitals in Benin, Ecuador, Jamaica and Rwanda

Brazil

Performance analyses of public hospital in the estate of Bahia with different organization models

Country Aids Policy analysis project: HIV/AIDS in Brazil

Enhancing performance in Brazil's health sector: Lessons from innovation in the state of Sao Paulo and the city of Curitiba

Hospital performance in Brazil; The search for excellence

Cambodia

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

Canada

Theory versus Practice: Discussing the governance of health technology assessment system

China

Financial protection in health in rural China, 1978-2005.
Trends and current status.

Developing and implementing equity-promoting health care policies in China

Health Service Delivery in China: A Literature Review

Review of Health Care Provider Payment Reforms in China

Czech Republic

An inquiry into good hospital governance: A New-Zealand-Czech comparison

Developing countries

Recent Experiences with Hospital Autonomy in Developing Countries - What Can We Learn?

Evaluated strategies to increase attraction and retention of health workers in remote and rural areas

Telemedicine support for the developing word

Utilizing performance-based financing to achieve health goals

Pay for performance to improve maternal and child health in developing countries. Findings from an online survey.

Paying for performance in health: a guide to develop blueprint

Innovative service models to improve quality and access

Innovations to improve providers performance

Making health markets work better for poor people improving provider performance

Protecting pro-poor health services during financial crisis: lessons from experience

Information needs for health care workers in developing countries: a literature review with a focus on Africa

The economic burden of illness for households in developing countries: a review of studies focusing on malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS

Conditional cash transfers

Health Systems in East Asia: What Can Developing Countries Learn from Japan and the Asian Tigers?

Hospital Cost Functions for developing countries

Household-to-hospital continuum of maternal and newborn care

Implementation of hospital reform policies: Lessons of experience

Recent experiences with hospital autonomy in developing countries. What can we learn?

Economics and financial management: What do district managers need to know?

Strengthening management in low income countries

Waivers and exemptions for health services in developing countries

Health in the developing world: achieving the MDG

Inequalities in health care use and expenditures: empirical data from 8 developing countries and countries in transition

Fiscal space and sustainability towards a solution for the health sector

Dominican Republic

Public hospital costs and quality in the Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Quality of obstetric care observed in 14 hospitals in Benin, Ecuador, Jamaica and Rwanda

Egypt

Egyptian hospital accreditation program: standards

Developing and implementing an accreditation program in Egypt

Eritrea

Improving hospital management skills in Eritrea: costing hospital services

Estonia

Payment for Performance: International experience and a cautionary proposal for Estonia

Ethiopia

Cost-effectiveness of anti-retroviral therapy at a district hospital
in Southern Ethiopia

Europe

How can hospital performance be measured and monitored?

What are the best strategies for ensuring quality in hospitals?

Measuring hospital performance to improve the quality of care in Europe: a need for clarifying the concepts and defining the main dimensions

Home care in Europe

Impact of health care system on socioeconomic inequalities in doctor use

Hospital activity in the European Union

Standards for health promotion in hospitals

How can hospitals performance be measured and monitored?

France

Self-assessed health of immigrants in France

The preferred doctor scheme: a political reading of a French experiment of gate keeping

Dynamic estimation of health expenditure: a new approach for simulating individual expenditure

Germany

The influence of insurance status on waiting times in German acute care hospitals: an empirical analysis of new data

Physicians' working conditions and job satisfaction: does hospital ownership in Germany make a difference?

Does type of ownership influence physicians' daily work schedules? An observational real-time study in German hospital department

Theory versus Practice: Discussing the governance of health technology assessment system

Haiti

Mortality, violence and access to care in two districts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Hungary

Organizational reform in the Hungarian health sector: institutional analysis of Hungarian hospitals and the possibilities of corporatization (Rethelyi et al)

Ghana

Hospital autonomy in Ghana: The experience of Korle Bu and Komfo Anokye teaching hospitals

India

Providing skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care to the poor through partnership with private sector obstetricians in Gujarat, India

Wanted: 2.4 million nurses, and that's just in India

Idle Capacity in resource strapped government hospitals in Kerala: Size, distribution and determining factors

Can microcredit help improve the health of poor women? Some findings from a cross-sectional study in Kerala

Nursing brain drain from India

Impact of SEWA's medical insurance fund on hospital utilization and expenditures. A household survey

Hospital autonomy in India: The experience of APVVP hospitals

Indonesia

Private sector healthcare in Indonesia

Improving Indonesia's health outcomes

Human resources for health at the district level in Indonesia: the smoke and mirrors of decentralization

Hospital autonomy in Indonesia

Iran

"We noticed that suddenly the country has become full of MRI". Policy makers' views on diffusion and use of health technologies in Iran

Ireland

A quantitative tool for workforce planning in healthcare: example simulation

Italy

Temporal and geographic heterogeneity of the association
between socioeconomic position and hospitalisation in Italy:
An incomebased indicator

Jamaica

Quality of obstetric care observed in 14 hospitals in Benin, Ecuador, Jamaica and Rwanda

Kenya

Policy interventions that attract nurses to rural areas a multicountry discrete choice experiment

Implementation of a structured paediatric admission record for district hospitals in Kenya: results of a pilot study

Hospital autonomy in Kenya: The experience of Kenyatta national hospital

Lao

Paris on the Mekong: using the aid effectiveness agenda to support human resources for health in the Lao People's Democratic Republic

Latin America

Hospital governance in Latin America: Results from a four-nations survey (Bloguer et al)

Generic drug policies in Latin America

Lebanon

Assessment of human resources management practices
in Lebanese hospitals

Hospital governance and incentive design: the case of corporatized public hospitals in Lebanon

Malawi

Mid-level providers in emergency obstetric and newborn health care: factors affecting their performance and retention within the Malawian health system

Central hospital reform in Malawi: challenges in implementation

Mexico

Role of cash in conditional cash transfer programmes for child health, growth, and development: an analysis of Mexico's Oportunidades

Contracting private sector providers for public sector health services in Jalisco, Mexico: perspectives of system actors

Evidence-based health policy: three generations of reform in Mexico

Myanmar

Public and/or private health care: Tuberculosis patients' perspectives in Myanmar

New Zealand

An inquiry into good hospital governance : A New-Zealand-Czech comparison

Nicaragua

Perfil de los sistemas de salud - Nicaragua

Equity, access to healthcare services and expenditures on health in Nicaragua (Angel-Urdinola)

Norway

The prisoner as patient - a health services satisfaction survey

OECD Countries

Healthcare Quality Indicators Project: Patient safety Indicators Report 2009

Selecting indicators for patient safety at the health systems level in OECD countries

The Long-Term Care workforce: overview and strategies to adapt supply to a growing demand

Health-Care systems: Lessons from the reform experiences

Health care quality indicators: Project conceptual framework paper

Health care quality indicators project 2006: Data collection update report

Improve health system performance through better care coordination

Measuring disparities in health status and in access and use of health care in OECD countries

Social health insurance versus tax-financed health systems: Evidence from the OECD

Russia

Seasonal variation and hospital utilization for tuberculosis in Russia: hospitals as social care institutions

Rwanda

Quality of obstetric care observed in 14 hospitals in Benin, Ecuador, Jamaica and Rwanda

South Africa

Policy interventions that attract nurses to rural areas a multicountry discrete choice experiment

The burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa

Quality assurance project: the impact of accreditation on the quality of hospital care : Kwazulu-Natal province, Republic of South Africa

Work satisfaction of professional nurses in South Africa: a comparative analysis of the public and private sectors

Spain

Spanish health district tests a new public-private mix

Tanzania

Achieving progress in maternal and neonatal health through integrated and comprehensive healthcare services. Experiences from a program in northern Tanzania

HIV and infant feeding counseling: challenges faced by nurse-counsellors in Northern Tanzania

Integrated health information systems in Tanzania: Experience and challenges

Measuring the inequalities in the distribution of health workers: the case of Tanzania

Cost sharing and access to healthcare for the poor: equity experiences in Tanzania

Thailand

Policy interventions that attract nurses to rural areas a multicountry discrete choice experiment

Health financing in Thailand: final integrated report

Efficiency of Thai provincial public hospitals after the introduction of national health insurance program

Tunisia

Analyse de la pertinence des hospitalisations dans la région de Monastir (Tunisie)

Turkey

Turkey: Reforming the health sector for improved access and efficiency

Uganda

Lack of effective communication between communities and hospital in Uganda: a qualitative exploration of missing links

Community perception and factors influencing utilization of health services in Uganda

Service availability mapping in Uganda

Autonomy of Apex hospitals in Uganda: too little, too slow

United Kingdom

Theory versus Practice: Discussing the governance of health technology assessment system

USA

When the patient falls out of bed, who pays?

American College of Healthcare Executives: U.S. Healthcare Facts 2009

Comparison of quality of care for patients in the veterans health administration and patients in a national sample

Patient Safety in American Hospitals

Hospital performance improvement: trends in quality and efficiency.
A quantitative analysis of performance improvements in US hospitals

Zambia

The role of nurses and midwives in polio eradication and measles control activities: a survey in Sudan and Zambia

Estimating average inpatient and outpatient costs and childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea treatment costs in an urban health centre in Zambia

Zimbabwe

Hospital Autonomy in Zimbabwe