Informal payments for health services are common in many transitional and developing countries. Informal payments are often claimed to reduce access to ...

The development community is striving to achieve results and value for money with its investments in health around the world. Yet, donors often work ...

Designed to promote efficiency and expand access to health care services by leveraging financial contributions from patients, user fee systems are in ...

Informal payments for health services are common in many transitional and developing countries. The aim of this paper is to investigate the nature of ...

Objective. The aim of this study was to ascertain, from patients’ perspective, the degree of knowledge and the actual coverage of the Emergency ...

Background: Child marriage is associated with adverse reproductive health outcomes, and the practice is still alarmingly common. Together with efforts ...

The overall human resource shortages and the distributional inequalities in the health workforce in many developing countries are well acknowledged. However, ...

Background Adolescents face a range of health problems but many barriers block their access to health services, and in particular to sexual and reproductive ...

A number of low- and middle-income countries have a severe shortage of health workers. This paper studies how health workers' choices of labour supply ...

Anticorruption in the Health Sector brings practical experience to bear on anticorruption approaches tailored specifically to health. The contributors, ...

Hospitals are vulnerable to corruption. In the U.S., health care fraud has been stimated to cost $60 billion per year, or 3% of total health care expenditures ...

In Jerusalem in the 1960s two nuns belonging to the Polish Order of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth experienced a calling to help relieve the suffering among ...

Inspired by a vision to build knowledge on how to implement high quality health care in low income contexts, Chr Michelsen Institute (CMI), Health Economics ...

Challenges in Implementing the Colombian Constitutional Court’s Health-Care System Ruling of 2008 Ca

Drug supply is an essential component of health care systems, accounting for 10-30% of health care costs. Drugs can be expensive, and willingness to pay ...

Low health worker performance is a key obstacle to achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals. While a lack of knowledge, equipment and medicine have been seen as the major challenges, a recent study pinpoints poorly motivated health workers as an important contributing factor to low quality health care in low-income settings.

Tanzanian health workers do not convert enough of their knowledge into practice. As a consequence, patients are inadequately examined. Building a stronger professional ethic could urge health workers to raise their standards.

The Service Delivery Indicators (“the Indicators”) provide a set of metrics for benchmarking service delivery performance in education ...

Litigating health rights does make a difference. However, it varies to whom. Court cases brought by NGOs often contribute to better health care for the poor. Other cases primarily benefit middle class people who have resources to go to court.

This research thesis addresses the challenges confronting the establishment of stable and sufficient health care provision in Heiban Locality in South ...