Determinants of life expectancy in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Conclusion Predictors of life expectancy differed between non-industrialized and industrialized nations, with the exception of vaccination averages. Non-industrialized/least developed nations were associated with adjusted life expectancies of >14% lower than their industrialized peers. Continued work to address differences in the quality of and access to care in the EMR is required. (Source: Health Policy and Planning)
Source: Health Policy and Planning - May 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Gilligan, A. M., Skrepnek, G. H. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research: a conference impact evaluation
This study provides an illustration of a framework useful for conference organizers in the evaluation of future conferences, and of a unique methodology for evaluation researchers. (Source: Health Policy and Planning)
Source: Health Policy and Planning - May 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Milko, E., Wu, D., Neves, J., Neubecker, A. W., Lavis, J., Ranson, M. K. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Improving the public health sector in South Africa: eliciting public preferences using a discrete choice experiment
Conclusion Communities are prepared to tolerate public sector health service characteristics such as a long waiting time, poor staff attitudes and lack of direct access to doctors if they receive the medicine they need, a thorough examination and a clear explanation of the diagnosis and prescribed treatment from health professionals. These findings prioritize issues that the South African government must address in order to meet their commitment to improve public sector health-care service provision. (Source: Health Policy and Planning)
Source: Health Policy and Planning - May 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Honda, A., Ryan, M., van Niekerk, R., McIntyre, D. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Heterogeneity in the effect of public health insurance on catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditures: the case of Mexico
Low- and middle-income countries increasingly provide broad-based public health coverage to their residents. One of the goals of such programmes is to reduce the extent to which beneficiaries incur catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditures on health care. A recent field experiment showed that on average Mexico’s new public insurance programme reduced such expenditures in rural areas. Our reanalysis of that data, augmented with administrative data on health infrastructure, shows that this effect depends strongly on the type of health facility to which the beneficiary has access. A second analysis, based on data from Mex...
Source: Health Policy and Planning - May 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Grogger, J., Arnold, T., Leon, A. S., Ome, A. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
Determinants of HIV testing among Nigerian couples: a multilevel modelling approach
This study is motivated by the fact that although there is a strong willingness from the Nigerian Government to examine new HIV preventions approaches such as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV (PrEP) and Treatment as Prevention (TasP) for HIV serodiscordant couples, the implementation of such policies would require the HIV status of each partner in the couple to be known. This is far to be achieved in the Nigerian context since in Nigeria only 6% of couples know their HIV status. In order to identify potential policies that are needed to increase HIV testing uptake, we use a three-level random intercept logistic model to se...
Source: Health Policy and Planning - May 6, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Lepine, A., Terris-Prestholt, F., Vickerman, P. Tags: Original articles Source Type: research
