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Health Financing Revisited [PDF]

, 2006
This overview of health financing tools, policies and trends--with a particular focus on challenges facing developing countries--provides the basis for effective policy-making. Analyzing the current global environment, the book discusses health financing goals in the context of both the underlying health, demographic, social, economic, political and ...
Pablo Gottret, George Schieber
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Health status and health systems financing in the MENA region: roadmap to universal health coverage

Global Health Research and Policy, 2017
Background Since the declaration of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 1990, many countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region made some improvements in maternal and child health and in tackling communicable diseases.
Eyob Zere Asbu, Maysoun Dimachkie Masri, Amer Kaissi   +2 more
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Distribution and Determinants of Low Birth Weight in Developing Countries [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2017
Objectives Low birth weight (LBW) is a major public health concern, especially in developing countries, and is frequently related to child morbidity and mortality.
Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Marufa Sultana, Abdur Razzaque Sarker   +2 more
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Financing Whole-Person Health

Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 2022
Background Current payment models in the U.S. healthcare system are neither sustainable nor desirable. Expenses outpace revenue for most healthcare providers, while patients experience rising prices contrasted with inadequate health outcomes. Objective
Madison Hecht, James Marzolf, Ryan D. Castle   +2 more
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Assessment of socioeconomic and health vulnerability among urban slum dwellers in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health
Background Bangladesh is rapidly urbanizing and approximately half of its urban population resides in deprived slums with limited access to basic needs. However, there is a dearth of information on vulnerability levels among slum dwellers.
Md Zahid Hasan, Md Golam Rabbani, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Gazi Golam Mehdi, Khadija Islam Tisha, Daniel D. Reidpath, Syed Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood   +7 more
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Guide posts for investment in primary health care and projected resource needs in 67 low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

The Lancet Global Health, 2019
Summary: Background: Primary health care (PHC) is a driving force for advancing towards universal health coverage (UHC). PHC-oriented health systems bring enormous benefits but require substantial financial investments.
Karin Stenberg, MSc, Odd Hanssen, MSc, Melanie Bertram, PhD, Callum Brindley, BEcon, Andreia Meshreky, MSc, Shannon Barkley, MD, Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer, MD   +6 more
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Influence of a pilot urban primary healthcare model on the use of medically trained healthcare providers among the low-income slum populations in Bangladesh: findings from an implementation research study

International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Delivering quality primary healthcare to the urban population has been challenging in many developing countries including Bangladesh. With a fragmented and pluralistic urban health system, the country experiences major hurdles in the provision
Md. Golam Rabbani, Zakir Hossain, Khadija Islam Tisha, Kamrun Nahar, Zillur Rahman Sakin, Towhida Nasrin, Mohammad Wahid Ahmed, Md. Zahid Hasan, Chandrasegarar Soloman, Margub Aref Jahangir, Maya Vandenent, Shehrin Shaila Mahmood   +11 more
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of introducing universal childhood rotavirus vaccination in Bangladesh

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018
Diarrhea is one of the world's leading killers of children, and globally, rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhea among under 5 children. In Bangladesh, rotavirus kills nearly 6,000 under 5 children in each year.
Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Robert Van Der Meer, Alec Morton   +4 more
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Regional government concerns in health services in remote areas: Case study on special capitation policies in North Bengkulu Regency

BIO Web of Conferences, 2020
The Minister of Health Regulation No. 52 of 2016 states that the tariff for first-level health services in remote areas and islands is determined based on special capitation tariffs, which is greater than the usual capitation tariffs.
Purnamasari Try, Ayu Puspandari Diah, Hasanbasri Mubasysyir, Hafidz Firdaus, Muttaqien Muttaqien   +4 more
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Innovative health financing mechanisms: the case of Africa's unified approach to vaccine acquisition. [PDF]

Health Policy Plan
Ojiako CP.
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