Sebastيan, Garcيa Marti and Agustيn, Ciapponi | 2008
- Author(s): Sebastيan, Garcيa Marti and Agustيn, Ciapponi
- Publisher: Supporting policy relevant reviews and trials (SUPPORT)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health economics, health insurance, risk management, poverty, health services
Risk protection mechanisms include community-based insurance, social or private health insurance and pre-payment schemes. Support for such mechanisms has been voiced on grounds of their capacity to protect vulnerable people and alleviate financial constraints to accessing health services.
Serneels, Pieter | 2010
- Author(s): Serneels, Pieter
- Publisher: World health organization (WHO)
- Pages: 342--349
- Keywords: health care delivery, health personnel, labour supply, rural areas, religious institutions, regression analysis, ethiopia, rwanda
The objective of this study is to understand the factors influencing health workers’ choice to work in rural areas as a basis for designing policies to redress geographic imbalances in health worker distribution.
Serneels, Pieter | 2007
- Author(s): Serneels, Pieter
- Publisher:
- Pages: 128--138
- Keywords: health personnel, health care delivery, ethiopia
Geographical imbalances in the health workforce have been a consistent feature of nearly all health systems, and especially in developing countries. This paper investigates the willingness to work in a rural area among final year nursing and medical students in Ethiopia.
Sharma, Suneeta | 2010
- Author(s): Sharma, Suneeta
- Publisher: Futures group
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health services, health programmes, family planning, guatemala, india
Targeting resources and services to the poor can be a useful strategy to reduce inequalities and promote equity in health. Policy and program interventions should be monitored to ensure that their objectives are achieved--that they contribute to improving the health of the poorest populations.
Sharma, Suneeta | 2010
- Author(s): Sharma, Suneeta
- Publisher: Futures group
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health economics, health policy, health services, india, peru, rwanda
The examples in this brief highlight how countries are successfully mobilizing the private sector and promoting effective public-private partnerships to enhance equitable access to health services.