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Salaries and incomes of health workers in sub-Saharan Africa
(Elsevier Ltd., 2008-02-23)Public-sector health workers are vital to the functioning of health systems. We aimed to investigate pay structures for health workers in the public sector in sub-Saharan Africa; the adequacy of incomes for health workers; ... -
Saving the lives of vulnerable children
(2005-06-25)Child health is critical to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, most obviously the target to reduce the under-5 mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015, but also to reduce communicable disease, ... -
Scholarly information discovery in the networked academic learning environment
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Scoping of public expenditure tracking and M&E of free care in Nepal, Report for National Health Sector Support Programme, Kathmandu.
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Self-reported illnesses and service utilisation among migrants working in small-to medium sized enterprises in Guangdong, China
(Science Direct, 2015-07)Objectives: As one of the most vulnerable populations in China, many migrants work in the small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This study aims to describe the self-reported illnesses and service utilization of the ... -
Service and population-based exemptions: are these the way forward for equity and efficiency in health financing in low income countries?
(Emerald, 2009)The importance of human resources management (HRM) to the success or failure of health systemperformance has, until recently, been generally overlooked. In recent years it has been increasinglyrecognised that getting HR ... -
Service- and population-based exemptions: Are these the way forward for equity and efficiency in health financing in low-income countries?
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009)Objective - The first wave of experiences of exemptions policies suggested that poverty-based exemptions, using individual targeting, were not effective, for practical and political economic reasons. In response, many ... -
Shifting the demand for emergency care in Cuba's health system
(Elsevier, 2004-07-09)Cuba has developed a programme of quality improvement of its health services, which includes an extramural emergency care system in which polyclinics and general practitioner networks play an important role. Using routine ... -
Short‐ and longer‐term impacts of Child Friendly Space Interventions in Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement, Uganda
(Wiley, 2019-05-20)Background The establishment of Child Friendly Spaces (CFSs) has become a widespread intervention targeting protection and support for displaced children in humanitarian contexts. There is a lack of evidence of impact of ... -
Simplified antiviral prophylaxis with or and without artificial feeding to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV in low and middle income countries: modelling positive and negative impact on child survival.
(International Scientific Literature, 2001-09)BACKGROUND: Antiviral prophylaxis is recommended for HIV positive mothers to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. To date UNAIDS and WHO policy has been based on a study in Thailand which showed a reduction in ... -
Social capital and sport events: Spectator attitudinal change and the homeless world cup
(Routledge, 2011-01)Increasingly, the staging of sport events promoting a social cause has become commonplace. This study collects data from spectators at two consecutive Homeless World Cups (Melbourne 2008 and Milan 2009) - an event that ... -
Social movements and public health advocacy in action: the UK people's health movement
(OUP, 2015-06-26)There are growing calls within public health for researchers and practitioners working to improve and protect the public's health to become more involved in politics and advocacy. Such a move takes practitioners and ... -
Social movements are key towards universal health coverage [Letter]
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Socio-cultural factors, gender roles and religious ideologies contributing to Caesarian-section refusal in Nigeria
(2015-08-12)Abstract Background: The death of women from pregnancy-related causes is a serious challenge that international development initiatives, including the Millennium Development Goals, have been trying to redress for decades. ... -
Socio-economic determinants of mortality in Taiwan: Combining individual and aggregate data
(Elsevier, 2011-01)There is a very large literature that examines the relationship between health and income. Two main hypotheses have been investigated: the income inequality hypothesis and the absolute income hypothesis. Most of previous ... -
Sociopolitical Determinants of International Health Policy
(Sage, 2015-03-26)For decades, two opposing logics have dominated the health policy debate: a comprehensive health care approach, with the 1978 Alma Ata Declaration as its cornerstone, and a private competition logic, emphasizing the role ... -
Something old or something new? Social health insurance in Ghana.
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2009)Background There is considerable interest at present in exploring the potential of social health insurance to increase access to and affordability of health care in Africa. A number of countries are currently experimenting ... -
Sources, determinants and utilization of health workers’ revenues: Evidence from Sierra Leone
(Oxford University Press, 2016-04-06)Exploring the entire set of formal and informal payments available to health workers (HWs) is critical to understand the financial incentives they face and devise effective incentive packages to motivate them. We investigate ... -
Speech and language therapy service delivery for bilingual children: a survey of three cities in Great Britain.
(Informa Healthcare, 2006-11)Background: Speech and language therapy (SLT) managers are expected to ensure that there are appropriate services available for bilingual and multilingual clients in order to ensure an equitable service to all clients. ... -
Sport and Exercise Physiology Testing Guidelines: Volume I -Sport Testing. The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Guide
(Routledge, UK, 2006-11-17)Sport and exercise physiologists are called upon to carry out physiological assessments that have proven validity and reliability, both in sport-specific and health-related contexts. A wide variety of test protocols have ...