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Health Sector Reform: Lessons From China

Social Science & Medicine, 1997
As a result of China's transition to a socialist market economy, its rural health services have undergone many of the changes commonly associated with health sector reform. These have included a decreased reliance on state funding, decentralisation of public health services, increased autonomy of health facilities, increased freedom of movement of ...
Gerald Bloom
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Data analysis needs for health sector reform

Health Policy, 1995
This paper addresses the role of information in health policy reform. It recognizes that reform can be based on data, but that there are other influences on health policy. The steps involved in making policy, including problem identification, comparison of solutions, policy adoption, implementation, and amendment, all require information.
J, Walsh, M, Simonet
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Health sector reform and public sector health worker motivation: a conceptual framework

Social Science & Medicine, 2002
Motivation in the work context can be defined as an individual's degree of willingness to exert and maintain an effort towards organizational goals. Health sector performance is critically dependent on worker motivation, with service quality, efficiency, and equity, all directly mediated by workers' willingness to apply themselves to their tasks ...
Lynne Miller, Franco, Sara, Bennett, Ruth, Kanfer   +2 more
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Health Sector Reforms in Orissa

Journal of Health Management, 2010
Any health sector reform aims at improving the health status of the people by affecting the organisational structure, governance system and financing variables. The health system has to perform a number of functions in order to enable more people to avail health benefits.
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The management of health services in Tanzania: A plea for health sector reform

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 1994
AbstractThere are essentially four main approaches used in attempts to strengthen the management of health services in developing countries. These are: information system development; management training; use of planning and evaluation methodologies; and, health sector reform.
P, Sandiford, G J, Kanga, A M, Ahmed
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Private sector health reform in South Africa

Health Economics, 1998
This paper discusses some of the trends, debates and policy proposals in relation to the financing of the private health sector in South Africa. The public and private sectors in South Africa are of equivalent size in terms of overall expenditure, but cover substantially different population sizes.
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Health Sector Reforms and Health Information in Ghana

Information Development, 2003
The health care system in Ghana is undergoing organizational and structural changes, creating the need for timely and reliable information for policy development and health planning. Over the years attempts at strengthening health management information systems have been ad hoc and focused on review of reporting systems.
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Health sector reforms in Argentina and the performance of the health financing system

Health Policy, 2008
In Argentina, health sector reforms put particular emphasis on decentralization and self-management of the tax-funded health sector, and the restructuring of the social health insurance during the 1990s. Unlike other countries in the region, there was no comprehensive plan to reform and unify the sector. In order to assess the effects of the reforms on
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Health Sector Reforms in Nigeria

2014
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Health Sector Reforms in Nigeria

2015
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