• What, why and how do health systems learn from one another? Insights from eight low- and middle-income country case studies 

  Witter, Sophie; Anderson, Ian; Annear, Peter; Awosusi, Abiodun; Bhandari, Nitin N.; Brikci, Nouria; Binachon, Blandine; Chanturidze, Tata; Gilbert, Katherine; Jensen, Charity; Lievens, Tomas; McPake, Barbara; Raichowdhury, Snehashish; Jones, Alex (BioMed Central, 2019-01-21)

  Background - All health systems struggle to meet health needs within constrained resources. This is especially true for low-income countries. It is critical that they can learn from wider contexts in order to improve their ...

• (How) does RBF strengthen strategic purchasing of health care? Comparing the experience of Uganda, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo 

  Witter, Sophie; Bertone, Maria Paola; Namakula, Justine; Chandiwana, Pamela; Chirwa, Yotamu; Ssennyonjo, Aloysius; Ssengooba, Freddie (BioMed Central, 2019-01-31)

  Background - Results-Based Financing (RBF) has proliferated in health sectors of low and middle income countries, especially fragile and conflict-affected ones, and has been presented as a way of reforming and strengthening ...

• Delivering reproductive health services through non-state providers in Pakistan: Understanding the value for money of different approaches 

  Gheorghe, Adrian; Zaman, Rashid Uz; Scott, Molly; Witter, Sophie (BioMed Central, 2018-12-04)

  Background - Delivering Reproductive Health Results(DRHR) programme used social franchising (SF) and social marketing (SM) approaches to increase the supply of high quality family planning services in underserved areas ...

• A prospective cohort study on injuries among intensively physically active high school students 

  Krtinic, Gordana; Duric, Predrag (Wiley, 2018-12-02)

  BACKGROUND - The leading cause of nonfatal injuries in age group 14‐19 is sports injuries. Purpose of the study was to determine the association between intense physical activity and injury and to identify the circumstances ...

• Understanding HRH recruitment in post-conflict settings: an analysis of central-level policies and processes in Timor-Leste (1999–2018) 

  Bertone, Maria Paola; Martins, Joao S.; Pereira, Sara M.; Martineau, Tim; Alonso-Garbayo, Alvaro (BioMed Central, 2018-11-29)

  Background - Although human resources for health (HRH) represent a critical element for health systems, many countries still face acute HRH challenges. These challenges are compounded in conflict-affected settings where ...

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