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Health Sector Reforms and Health Poverty

Social Change, 2010
Health sector reforms associated with decentralization, contraction of public sector, service contracting, user fees, etc., influence health sector both from the demand side and the supply side. In the wake of decreasing public expenditure on health, it is necessary to find the other factors that could take care of the health status.
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Health sector

Surveillance was instrumental in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Various methods helped track cases, variants, and disease severity. In addition, the data aided authorities in identifying waves, gauging control measures, and estimating transmission rates.
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STRENGTHENING HEALTH PROMOTION IN THE COMMUNITY HEALTH SECTOR

Community Health Studies, 1986
AbstractCommunity health practitioners and administrators are exhorted to pursue community‐wide effort to reduce risks to health, as a priority. The development of more effective, community‐based health promotion initiatives requires a consideration of the range of different levels at which health promotion can be approached, and the judicious ...
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Health-sector disparities in Peru

1993
Abstract This chapter summarizes some of the major findings of a comprehensive study, the Health Sector Analysis of Peru (HSAP), carried out in 1985−6 by a team of Peruvian and international researchers (HSAP 1986). The HSAP was designed to test the premiss − shared by Peruvian health-sector authorities and foreign aid officials ...
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Health Management for the Health Sector

2016
The discussions and analysis of the preceding sections reveal the need for management skills in the health sector for the delivery of health-care services to the right people at the right time and even more importantly at affordable prices. Health economics focusses attention to the ways and means of utilising the scarce resources in the health sector ...
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Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector

New England Journal of Medicine, 2022
Jennifer, Mueller, Kara, Long Roche, Don, Lieber   +2 more
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Gender in Nepal’s health sector

BMJ, 2022
Mahesh, Puri, Minakshi, Dahal, Sarah, Hawkes, Kent, Buse   +3 more
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Reforming Health Sector Reform

2001
The previous chapter addressed both the capacity problems faced by those case study countries that had considered or introduced specific reforms, and how capacity might best be increased. It left largely unaddressed the fundamental question of the relevance of these reform measures to particular countries, and indeed the relevance of what is widely ...
Anne Mills, Sara Bennett, Steven Russell, Nimal Attanayake, Charles Hongoro, V. R. Muraleedharan, Paul Smithson   +6 more
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Health sector capacity building

New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising, 2003
AbstractHealth sector capacity building is closely connected to the healthy community concept in which people are empowered to improve their individual and collective health by changing the physical and social conditions that directly affect health.
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Improving health sector travel.

Health estate, 2004
Preventing ill health and obesity and building more physical activity into our daily lives have never been so high on the agenda, and the way we travel can help. Many workplaces and schools are drawing up travel plans, with the aims usually to minimise car use and encourage healthier and more environmentally friendly travel.
David, Hurdle, Adrian, Davis
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