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Background Health policy interventions were expected to improve access to health care delivery, provide financial risk protection, besides reducing inequities that underlie geographic and socio-economic variation in population access to health care. This
Sakthivel Selvaraj +7 more
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Telecommunications Policies: Determinants and Impact [PDF]
This paper presents new data, in the form of four indices, on liberalization policies and the independence of regulators for a cross section of countries. These indices are combined with a comprehensive set of performance, institutional and political data to analyze both the determinants and the impact of telecommunications policies.
Gual, Jordi, Trillas, Francesc
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Background: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) requires increased domestic financing of health by low-income countries (LICs) and middle-income countries (MICs).
Helen Saxenian +3 more
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Direct estimation of policy impacts [PDF]
This paper specifies a general set of conditions under which the impacts of a policy can be identified using data generated under a different policy regime. We show that some of the policy impacts can be identified under relatively weak conditions on the data and structure of a model.
Hidehiko Ichimura, Christopher R. Taber
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This study describes health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among older Medicare beneficiaries with hormone receptor-positive (HR+) early breast cancer (eBC).
Nadia A Nabulsi MPH +10 more
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Background: To estimate how much additional funding is needed for poverty-related and neglected disease (PRND) product development and to target new resources effectively, policymakers need updated information on the development pipeline and estimated ...
Alexander Gunn +7 more
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Background Under-five malaria in Nigeria is a leading cause of global child mortality, accounting for 95,000 annual child deaths. High out-of-pocket medical expenditure contributes to under-five malaria mortality by discouraging care-seeking and use of ...
Rishav Raj Dasgupta +2 more
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Using cultural theory to navigate the policy process [PDF]
Cultural Theory's (CT) four 'cultural biases' hold an intuitive appeal and empirical resonance for policy scholars as they seek to make sense of complex policy contexts.
Simmons, Richard, Richard Simmons
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Background: Nigeria’s neonatal mortality rate (NMR) and under-five mortality rate (U5MR) are 39 per 1,000 and 120 per 1,000 live births, respectively. On average, 0.23 million neonates and 0.7 million under-five children die every year, but some states ...
Osondu Ogbuoji, Gavin Yamey
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Transitioning from donor aid for health: perspectives of national stakeholders in Ghana
Background Ghana’s shift from low-income to middle-income status will make it ineligible to receive concessional aid in the future. While transition may be a reflection of positive changes in a country, such as economic development or health progress, a ...
Osondu Ogbuoji +12 more
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