Applying behavioural economics to health systems of low- and middle-income countries: what are policymakers' and practitioners' views?
Interest in behavioural economics has soared in recent years, particularly because of its application to several areas of public policy, now including international development, education, and health. Yet, little is known about how the policy and political implications of behavioural economics are perceived among stakeholders. Using an innovative vignette-based online survey, we assessed the opinions of 520 policymakers and practitioners around the world about health policy recommendations emanating from behavioural economics principles that are relevant to low- and middle-income country settings. We also determined the so...
Source: Health Policy and Planning - June 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Trujillo, A. J., Glassman, A., Fleisher, L. K., Nair, D., Duran, D. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Ten best resources on conditional cash transfers
The world’s economy is in a fragile state. Although cautiously recovering from a global recession, unemployment rates and poverty levels remain high. At the same time, food and fuel crises have resulted in skyrocketing commodity costs, straining household budgets even further than before. In the wake of these financial pressure points, there has been increased focus on social safety net programmes. More recently, Brazil’s ‘Bolsa Familia’ conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme has celebrated its tenth-year anniversary, renewing focus on this particular aspect of social transfer programmes. This es...
Source: Health Policy and Planning - June 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Marshall, C., Hill, P. S. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Distressed financing of household out-of-pocket health care payments in India: incidence and correlates
In conclusion, the need for social protection policies and improved health care coverage is emphasized to curtail the incidence of distressed health care financing in India. (Source: Health Policy and Planning)
Source: Health Policy and Planning - June 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Joe, W. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Decentralization in Indonesia: lessons from cost recovery rate of district hospitals
This study investigates the consequences of decentralization on cost recovery rate of public hospitals at district level. We examine five service units (inpatient, outpatient, operating room, laboratory and radiology) in three public hospitals. We find that after 20 years of decentralization, district hospitals still depend on government subsidies, demonstrated by the fact that the cost recovery rate of most service units is less than one. The commercial sections fail to play their role as revenue generator as they are still subsidized by the government. We also find that the bulk of costs are made up of staff salaries and...
Source: Health Policy and Planning - June 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Maharani, A., Femina, D., Tampubolon, G. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Regional-based Integrated Healthcare Network policy in Brazil: from formulation to practice
Conclusions The implementation of regional-based IHN policy in Brazil is hampered by the decentralized organization of the health system to the municipal level, suggesting the need to centralize certain functions to regional structures or states and to define better the role of the government levels involved. (Source: Health Policy and Planning)
Source: Health Policy and Planning - June 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Vargas, I., Mogollon-Perez, A. S., Unger, J.-P., da-Silva, M. R. F., De Paepe, P., Vazquez, M.-L. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
The use of counting beads to improve the classification of fast breathing in low-resource settings: a multi-country review
This article presents findings from different studies on the utility of these beads, in conjunction with a timer, as a tool to improve classification of fast breathing. Studies conducted by the International Rescue Committee and Save the Children among illiterate CHWs assessed the effectiveness of counting beads to improve both counting and classifying respiratory rate against age-specific cut-off points. These studies found that the use of counting beads enabled and improved the assessment and classification of fast breathing. However, a Malaria Consortium study found that the use of counting beads decreased the accuracy ...
Source: Health Policy and Planning - June 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Noordam, A. C., Barbera Lainez, Y., Sadruddin, S., van Heck, P. M., Chono, A. O., Acaye, G. L., Lara, V., Nanyonjo, A., Ocan, C., Kallander, K. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Applying lessons learned from the USAID family planning graduation experience to the GAVI graduation process
This article compares and contrasts the USAID and GAVI processes to apply lessons learned from the USAID FP graduation experience to the GAVI process. The findings of the review are 3-fold: (1) FP graduation plans served an important purpose by focusing on strategic needs across six graduation plan foci, facilitating graduation with pre-determined financial and technical benchmarks, (2) USAID sought to assure contraceptive security prior to graduation, phasing out of contraceptive donations first before phasing out from technical assistance in other programme areas and (3) USAID sought to sustain political support to assur...
Source: Health Policy and Planning - June 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Shen, A. K., Farrell, M. M., Vandenbroucke, M. F., Fox, E., Pablos-Mendez, A. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
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Monitoring the ability to deliver care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of health facility assessment tools
Conclusions Not only do a large number of health facility assessment tools exist, but the data they collect and methods they employ are very different. This certainly limits the comparability of the data between different countries’ health systems and probably creates blind spots that impede efforts to strengthen those systems. Agreement is needed on the essential elements of health facility assessments to guide the development of specific indicators and for refining existing instruments. (Source: Health Policy and Planning)
Source: Health Policy and Planning - May 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Nickerson, J. W., Adams, O., Attaran, A., Hatcher-Roberts, J., Tugwell, P. Tags: Reviews Source Type: research
The cost of a knowledge silo: a systematic re-review of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions
Divisions between communities, disciplinary and practice, impede understanding of how complex interventions in health and other sectors actually work and slow the development and spread of more effective ones. We test this hypothesis by re-reviewing a Cochrane-standard systematic review (SR) of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions’ impact on child diarrhoea morbidity: can greater understanding of impacts and how they are achieved be gained when the same papers are reviewed jointly from health and development perspectives? Using realist review methods, researchers examined the 27 papers for evidence of o...
Source: Health Policy and Planning - May 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Loevinsohn, M., Mehta, L., Cuming, K., Nicol, A., Cumming, O., Ensink, J. H. J. Tags: Reviews Source Type: research
Sexual violence in India: addressing gaps between policy and implementation
This article addresses gaps in governance systems and offers solutions to the problem of sexual violence in India. (Source: Health Policy and Planning)
Source: Health Policy and Planning - May 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Sharma, P., Unnikrishnan, M. K., Sharma, A. Tags: Commentary Source Type: research
An international comparison of stakeholder motivation to implement liver cancer control
Conclusions This study provides the first empirical evidence on the motivation of stakeholders to implement national cancer control programmes. Furthermore, we demonstrate that motivation is more clearly associated with a country’s cancer control needs rather than resources. (Source: Health Policy and Planning)
Source: Health Policy and Planning - May 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Bridges, J. F. P., Joy, S. M., Blauvelt, B. M., Yan, W., Marsteller, J. A. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Innovations in communication technologies for measles supplemental immunization activities: lessons from Kenya measles vaccination campaign, November 2012
Conclusions In high-density settlements, house-to-house visits are easy and more penetrative compared with traditional media approaches. Using mobile phones to document campaign processes and outputs provides real time evidence for service delivery planning to improve immunization coverage. (Source: Health Policy and Planning)
Source: Health Policy and Planning - May 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Mbabazi, W. B., Tabu, C. W., Chemirmir, C., Kisia, J., Ali, N., Corkum, M. G., Bartley, G. L. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
