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Occupational Therapy graduates of 2009; knowledge and attitudes relating to their role in the area of alcohol misuse.
(College of Occupational Therapists, 2011-04)Purpose: Within Scotland, health policy changes are being considered to address the misuse of alcohol. Concurrently, a shifting of professional roles within the National Health Service is under way. The purpose of the study ... -
Patient care pathways under the model of integrating tuberculosis service with general hospitals in China
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2013-10)Objective: To report care pathways of tuberculosis (TB) patients under the integrated model, where TB clinical service is provided by a general hospital instead of the TB dispensary, with the aim of providing policy ... -
Patient-reported measures of hearing loss and tinnitus in pediatric cancer and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: A systematic review
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2017-10-04)Purpose We identified studies that described use of any patient-reported outcome scale for hearing loss or tinnitus among children and adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ... -
Pattern recognition in health systems research for panel session: 'How can we achieve scientific rigour in health systems research'?
(2009)Experimental approaches such as randomised controlled trials have been successful in identifying and testing medical technologies. There is enthusiasm for use of similar approaches for health systems policies and programmes. ... -
Pay for performance for strengthening delivery of sexual and reproductive health services in low- and middle-income countries Evidence synthesis paper
(The World BankQueen Margaret University, 2013)Background This paper aims to bring together the global evidence on paying providers for performance (P4P), its impact on the delivery of sexual and reproductive health services, and the conditions under which it may have ... -
Paying for Performance to Improve the Delivery and Uptake of Family Planning in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review
(Wiley, 2016-11-17)Paying for performance is a strategy to meet the unmet need for family planning in low and middle income countries; however, rigorous evidence on effectiveness is lacking. Scientific databases and grey literature were ... -
Paying for performance to improve the delivery of health interventions in low- and middle-income countries
(The Cochrane Collaboration, 2012-02-15)Abstract BACKGROUND: There is a growing interest in paying for performance as a means to align the incentives of health workers and health providers with public health goals. However, there is currently a lack of rigorous ... -
Paying health workers for performance in a fragmented, fragile state: reflections from Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo
(Oxford Journals, 2013-01)The health financing system in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) presents an extreme example of low government investment, high dependency on user fees and poor harmonization across donors. Within this context, ... -
Paying health workers for performance in Battagram district, Pakistan
(BioMed Central, 2011-10)Background: There is a growing interest in using pay-for-performance mechanisms in low and middle-income countries in order to improve the performance of health care providers. However, at present there is a dearth of ... -
Paying their way: health financing mechanisms in Zambia
(UK Department for International Development, 2007-08-28)Health services in many low-income countries charge user fees. These payments may deter the poorest people from seeking treatment. Zambia has tried two alternatives to user fees: prepayment and discount cards. How do these ... -
Performance-based financing as a health system reform: mapping the key dimensions for monitoring and evaluation
(BioMed Central, 2013-09-29)Background Performance-based financing is increasingly being applied in a variety of contexts, with the expectation that it can improve the performance of health systems. However, while there is a growing literature on ... -
Performance-based financing in low- and middle-income countries: still more questions than answers
(World Health Organization, 2012-08)Performance-based financing is promoted as a promising strategy for improving health service delivery and helping to reach the Millennium Development Goals.1,2 But what is the evidence supporting its use -
Performance-based financing in the context of the complex remuneration of health workers: findings from a mixed-method study in rural Sierra Leone
(BioMed Central, 2016-07-19)motivation and performance. However, the literature so far tends to look at PBF payments in isolation, without reference to the overall remuneration of health workers. Taking the case of Sierra Leone, where PBF was ... -
Performance-based financing in three humanitarian settings: Principles and pragmatism
(BioMed Central, 2018-06-27)Background: Performance based financing (PBF) has been increasingly implemented across low and middleincome countries, including in fragile and humanitarian settings, which present specific features likely to require ... -
Perseverative cognition and health behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(Frontiers, 2016-11-08)Recent developments in stress theory have emphasized the significance of perseverative cognition (worry and rumination) in furthering our understanding of stress-disease relationships. Substantial evidence has shown that ... -
Planning and management of community financing : a review of NGO approaches in the health sector
(1993)In the face of severe resource shortages, community financing is increasingly being promoted as an alternative source of finance for public health providers. Non-government organisations have long-standing experience of ... -
Policymakers in rich countries drive the health migration crisis
(UK Department for International Development, 2006-11-08)The shortage of human resources in developing countries has reached crisis point, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. One cause is increasing rates of migration by qualified doctors and nurses to higher-income countries. ... -
The political economy of results-based financing: The experience of the health system in Zimbabwe
(Springer Nature, 2019-07-15)Background: Since 2000, results based financing (RBF) has proliferated in health sectors in Africa in particular, including in fragile and conflict affected settings (FCAS) and there is a growing but still contested ... -
Political will for better health, a bottom‐up process
(Wiley, 2011-06-24)Lately, different voices in the global public health community have drawn attention to the interaction between the State and civil society in the context of reducing health inequities. A rights‐based approach empowers ...