Tyrrell, Amanda K. | 2010
- Author(s): Tyrrell, Amanda K.
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health personnel, health economics, mozambique, guinea-bissau
The authors conclude that bottom-up and country-specific costing methodologies have the potential to serve adequately the multi-faceted purpose of the exercise.
Uddin Khan, Mohammad Nasir | 2009
- Author(s): Uddin Khan, Mohammad Nasir
- Publisher: BRAC centre [etc.]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: maternal health services, health care delivery, health economics, rural areas, obstetrics, poverty, midwives, bangladesh
The costs of skilled maternal and newborn care are major obstacles to access. This study analyzed the costs incurred by a household for maternal and newborn care in selected areas of rural Bangladesh.
Ueffing, Erin | 2009
- Author(s): Ueffing, Erin
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health personnel, health policy
This paper illustrates how decision-makers can use evidence and tools from an equity-oriented toolkit to scale up training and education of health workers, following five recommendations of the technical working group within the Global Health Workforce Alliance.
Urcullo, Gonzalo | 2008
- Author(s): Urcullo, Gonzalo
- Publisher: Bitrلn & asociados (B&A) : with WHO
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health personnel, poverty, bolivia, peru, chile
The findings of this research about problems related to Health Workers Salaries and Benefits (HWSB) are: i) shortage of health workers, disparity of skills, ii) poor distribution of health workers, iii) inadequate working environments and, iv) low knowledge about the characteristic of HWSB.
Urcullo, Gonzalo and Muٌoz, Rodrigo and Bitrلn, Ricardo | 2008
- Author(s): Urcullo, Gonzalo and Muٌoz, Rodrigo and Bitrلn, Ricardo
- Publisher: Bitrلn & asociados (B&A)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health policy, health economics, poverty, latin america, caribbean region
A common health policy problem in countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is the lack of research-based policy decision-making. This study explores this phenomenon in 10 LAC countries in the areas of health financing, human resources, and the role of the non-state sector in health.