Hot topics in service delivery
Innovative strategies to improve health services
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Improving health services and strengthening health systems: Adopting and implementing innovative strategies - An exploratory review in twelve countries
A review of implementation and impact of eight strategies for improving service delivery in twelve low-income countries: Contracting with NGO's, delegation of authority, user fees exemptions, subsidies for the poor, performance related pay and incentives, reorganizing outreach workers and social marketing.
Managing health services
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Strengthening Management in Low Income Countries
Management capacity is often cited as a constraint to achieving public health goals, yet the course of change remains unclear. This paper summarizes key challenges and effective strategies in developing middle management capacity in low-income countries, and the role of the international community.
Non-state sector
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Working with the Non-state Sector to Achieve Public Health Goals
This paper presents key challenges and proposes some strategies for working with the non-state sector to achieve public health goals. Roles and capacities of government and non-state actors are reviewed, as are priorities for action.
Integrating health services
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Technical Brief No.1 - Integrated health services: what and why?
Integration is not a new topic – in the past it has been the subject of a rather polarized debate. It is once again topical, largely because of the rise of single-disease funding and in recognition of the fact that the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will not be met without improving health systems. This paper reviews experiences and identifies some key messages.