Van Dormael, Monique | 2008
- Author(s): Van Dormael, Monique
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health personnel, health policy, health programmes
An orientation course for recently established rural doctors was set up in 2003, based on a training needs assessment. This paper evaluates this programme, focusing on processes and mechanisms operating in the relation between training and retention in rural practice.
Vega-Romero, Romلn and Torres Tovar, Mauricio | 2007
- Author(s): Vega-Romero, Romلn and Torres Tovar, Mauricio
- Publisher: University of the Witwatersrand]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health policy, civil society, governance
This report provides an analytic review of relevant secondary evidence from published grey literature on the role of civil society in building equitable, people-centered national health systems.
Vialle-Valentin, Catherine E. | 2008
- Author(s): Vialle-Valentin, Catherine E.
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: medical supplies, essential drugs, health insurance, poverty
This paper investigates whether and how Community-based Health Insurance (CHI) schemes expand access to medicines in low-income countries, using literature review and qualitative interviews.
Victora, C.G. | 2010
- Author(s): Victora, C.G.
- Publisher: Oxford university press [etc.]
- Pages: 253--261
- Keywords: maternal health services, minorities, health services, brazil
One of the conclusions is that poor and black women should be actively encouraged to start antenatal care early in pregnancy so that they can fully benefit from it. There is a need for regular monitoring of antenatal attendances and quality of care with an equity lens.
Vriesendorp, Sylvia | cop. 2010
- Author(s): Vriesendorp, Sylvia
- Publisher: Management sciences for health (MSH)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health policy, health planning, health economics, health care delivery, public health
This handbook, created by Management Sciences for Health, brings together effective practices in leadership, management, and governance from field experience in public health. It includes effective practices in key management systems that all work together to improve health.