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How can countries respond to the health and care workforce crisis? Insights from international evidence
1 INTRODUCTION The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the chronic underfunding of the health and care workforce (HCWF) and demonstrated how unprepared health systems were to respond to a global health crisis.1 Future global health security requires a HCWF that is sufficient and adequately trained to respond effectively to future health crises and meet growing and changing health needs with ageing populations, a rise in chronic conditions and growing inequality.2...
Economic evaluation is insufficient without health systems analysis
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Associations between Indonesia’s national health insurance, effective coverage in maternal health and neonatal mortality: a multilevel interrupted time-series analysis 2000-2017 | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8226-9473Tiara Marthias1,2, Barbara McPake1, Natalie Carvalho3, Christopher Millett4,5, Kanya Anindya1, Nurmala Selly Saputri6, Laksono Trisnantoro2, John Tayu Lee1,4,7 1 Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 3 Centre for...
Associations between Indonesia’s national health insurance, effective coverage in maternal health and neonatal mortality: a multilevel interrupted time-series analysis 2000-2017 | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8226-9473Tiara Marthias1,2, Barbara McPake1, Natalie Carvalho3, Christopher Millett4,5, Kanya Anindya1, Nurmala Selly Saputri6, Laksono Trisnantoro2, John Tayu Lee1,4,7 1Nossal Institute for Global Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 3Centre for...
‘You say you are a TB doctor, but actually, you do not have any power’: health worker (de)motivation in the context of integrated, hospital-based tuberculosis care in eastern China | Human Resources for Health | Full Text
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Transforming UNICEF’s approach to health system strengthening: what place can a blended learning course play?
Abstract Background The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) published their Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) approach to meet its strategic goals of ending preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths and promoting the health and development of all children and reducing inequities in health in 2016.
Physical multimorbidity, health service use, and catastrophic health expenditure by socioeconomic groups in China: an analysis of population-based panel data
Summary Background Multimorbidity, the presence of two or more mental or physical chronic non-communicable diseases, is a major challenge for the health system in China, which faces unprecedented ageing of its population.
Standard of Living and Disability in Cambodia
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The need for cost-effective and affordable responses for the global epidemic of non-communicable diseases
Globally, health systems are struggling to deliver universal health coverage in the context of a global epidemic of non-communicable disease and a paucity of public resources to respond to it. According to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease study, hypertension has become the most important risk factor. 1 Bromfield S Muntner P High blood pressure: the leading global burden of disease risk factor and the need for worldwide prevention programs. Curr Hypertens Rep.
Never again? Challenges in transforming the health workforce landscape in post-Ebola West Africa
Human Resources for Health201917:19 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-019-0351-y © The Author(s). 2019 Received: 20 August 2018 Accepted: 13 February 2019 Published: 7 March 2019 Abstract Background The 2013–2014 West African Ebola outbreak highlighted how the world’s weakest health systems threaten global health security and heralded huge support for their recovery.
Crunching health expenditure numbers: important but treacherous terrain
In two new reports in The Lancet Global Health, Adam Wagstaff and colleagues1x1Wagstaff, A, Flores, G, Hsu, J et al. Progress on catastrophic health spending in 133 countries: a retrospective observational study. Lancet Glob Health. 2018; 6: e169–e179See all References, 2x2Wagstaff, A, Flores, G, Smitz, M-F, Hsu, J, Chepynoga, K, and Eozenou, P. Progress on impoverishing health spending in 122 countries: a retrospective observational study. Lancet Glob Health.
Inequalities in investment in malaria research in sub-Saharan Africa: are they inequities?
In their Article, Michael Head and colleagues1 provide a thorough analysis of patterns of malaria research investment in sub-Saharan Africa, which raises new questions about the appropriate distribution of this investment. They report that of 333 research awards meeting their inclusion criteria and totalling US$814·4 million, more than one third is received by three countries: Tanzania (13·2%), Uganda (12·0%), and Kenya (11·4%).
Renaming non-communicable diseases
Reframing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to “spur a sense of urgency” and “focus attention on effective system-wide interventions”1 makes sense.
Managing the public-private mix to achieve universal health coverage
To view the full text, please login as a subscribed user or purchase a subscription. Click here to view the full text on ScienceDirect. FiguresFigureTreatment seeking from unqualified providers for childhood illness versus government health expenditureData for treatment source for diarrhoea and fever come from DHS surveys.
Free health care for under-fives, expectant and recent mothers? Evaluating the impact of Sierra Leone’s free health care initiative
This study investigates the extent to which Sierra Leone’s FHCI increased access to health care services and reduced financial risks associated with seeking health care among beneficiaries of the policy. Our results suggest that children under the age of 5 years (eligible children), are less likely to pay consultation and prescription charges in public health facilities where the FHCI applies.
How to do (or not to do) … Designing a discrete choice experiment for application in a low-income country
Understanding the preferences of patients and health professionals is useful for health policy and planning. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are a quantitative technique for eliciting preferences that can be used in the absence of revealed preference data. The method involves asking individuals to state their preference over hypothetical alternative scenarios, goods or services.
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