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Making choices between prepayment and user charges in Zambia : what are the results for equity?
(2007-12)In many low-income countries, user charges were introduced in the 1990s. As problems emerged of equity of access, interest grew in developing prepayment mechanisms to protect users from risk of out-of-pocket payments. In ... -
Making every baby count: Reflection on the Helping Babies Breathe Program to reduce birth asphyxia in sub-Saharan Africa (editorial)
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Managing national and international priorities: A framework for low-income countries
(2012-08)Capacity-building programmes in low-income countries (LICs) are subject to a tension between the requirement to best train workers to fulfil national needs and the requirement to meet international expectations of their ... -
Managing the public-private mix to achieve universal health coverage
(Elsevier, 2016-06-26)The private sector has a large and growing role in health systems in low-income and middle-income countries. The goal of universal health coverage provides a renewed focus on taking a system perspective in designing policies ... -
Mapping user fees for health care in high-mortality countries - evidence from a recent survey
(HLSP Institute Paper, LondonQueen Margaret University, 2010)In recent years several countries have introduced reforms to user fees; a growing number of countries are also introducing basic health care free at the point of use. In many cases, the focus has been on making health care ... -
Markets for hospital services in Zambia
(Wiley InterScience, 2002-08-09)Hospital reforms involving the introduction of measures to increase competition in hospital markets are being implemented in a range of low and middle-income countries. However, little is understood about the operation of ... -
Maternal fee exemption in Senegal: is the policy a success
(2009-02)This article describes a qualitative research component of an evaluation of the national free delivery and caesarean policy (FDCP) in Senegal. Its aim was to establish community awareness and views on the policy, as well ... -
Meaningful change or more of the same? The Global Fund's new funding model and the politics of HIV scale-up
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-02)As we enter the fourth decade of HIV and AIDS, sustainability of treatment and prevention programmes is a growing concern in an environment of shrinking resources. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ... -
Measuring change and changing measures: The development of a torture survivor specific measure of change
(International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, 2016-06-24)Freedom from Torture is a UK-based human rights organisation dedicated to the treatment and rehabilitation of torture survivors. The organisation has been working towards the development of a clinical outcome tool for a ... -
Measuring the incidence and reporting of violence against women and girls in liberia using the 'neighborhood method'
(2013-09)Background This paper reports on the use of a neighborhood method- to measure the nature and incidence of violence against women and girls in post-conflict Liberia. Methods The study population comprised females in ... -
Measuring the quality of hospital tuberculosis services: a prospective study in four Zimbabwe hospitals
(Oxford Journals, 2005-04-14)Objective. To show how the use of a prospective approach to measuring the quality of services for a specific diagnosis can generate useful information for improving the quality of services in environments with limited ... -
Medical device procurement in low- and middle-income settings: protocol for a systematic review
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Medical device procurement processes for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are a poorly understood and researched topic. To support LMIC policy formulation in this area, international public health organizations ... -
Medicine prices in urban Mozambique: a public health and economic study of pharmaceutical markets and price determinants in low-income settings
(2010)It has been suggested that medicines are unaffordable in low-income countries and that world manufacturing and trade policies are responsible for high prices. This research investigates medicine prices in urban Mozambique ... -
Methods for evaluating effects of health reforms
(World Health OrganizationQueen Margaret University, 1997)This document, written for government planners and nongovernment consultants who deal with health policy, offers simple, low-cost ways to evaluate health sector reforms through direct measurements of the effects of changes ... -
Methods for medical device and equipment procurement and prioritization within low- and middle-income countries: findings of a systematic literature review
(2017-08-18)Background: Forty to 70 % of medical devices and equipment in low- and middle-income countries are broken, unused or unfit for purpose; this impairs service delivery to patients and results in lost resources. Undiscernin ... -
Mid-level health providers: A promising resource
(Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2011)Mid-level health providers (MLP) are health workers trained at a higher education institution for at least a total of 2-3 years, and authorized and regulated to work autonomously to diagnose, manage and treat illness, ... -
Minding the gaps: health financing, universal health coverage and gender
(Oxford University Press, 2017-07-25)In a webinar in 2015 on health financing and gender, the question was raised why we need to focus on gender, given that a well-functioning system moving towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) will automatically be ...