Title: Why do health systems matter? : exploring links between health systems and HIV response : a case study from Russia

Authors: Tkatchenko-Schmidt, Elena

Place: Oxford [etc.]

Publisher: Oxford university press [etc.]

Year: 2010

Journal: Health policy and planning

Volume: vol. 25, issue 4

PAGE: 283--291

Subject: Health and Poverty

Keywords: health care delivery, health policy, russia

Abstract: This article examines the relationships between health system characteristics and the HIV response in Russia, the country which towards the end of the Soviet period had the world’s highest ratios of doctors and hospital beds to population and yet struggled to address the growing threat of HIV/AIDS.

URL: http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/4/283.full.pdf+html

Document type: Portal