Resources

Health systems & policy

Alphabetical order

• 2010 Reality Check
  Action for Global Health (2010)
• A Human Rights Based Approach to Health
  World Health Organization (2010)
• A renaissance in primary health care
  The Lancet (2008)
• Access : how do good health technologies get to poor people in poor countries?
  Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (2010)
• Access transformed: Building a primary care workforce for the 21st century
  National Association of Community Health Centers (2008)
• Action towards healthy living—for all
  International Journal of Epidemiology (2010)
• Assessing the national health information system: An assessment tool
  World Health Organization (2008)
• Bridging the divide: global governance of trade and health
  The Lancet (2009)
• Building capacity to eliminate health disparities: The founding meeting of the Academy for Health Equity
  Academy for Health Equity (2008)
• Can health equity become a reality?
  The Lancet (2008)
• Capacity building, awareness raising actions to address the social determinants of health and to improve health equity
  EuroHealthNet (2009)
• Capacity planning in health care: a review of the international experience
  New policy brief on capacity planning
  WHO on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2008)
• Capitation and enhanced fee-for-service models for primary care reform: a population-based evaluation
  Canadian Medical Association (2009)
• Challenging orthodoxies: The road ahead for health and human rights
  Health and Human Rights (2008)
• Chile's neoliberal health reform: An assessment and a critique
  PLoS Med (2008)
• Clinical social franchising: An Annual Compendium of Programs
  The Global Health Group - University of California, San Francisco (2009)
• Comparison of the health systems in China and India (A)
  RAND Corporation (2008)
• Comprehensive assessment of reform efforts (COMPARE)
  RAND Corporation (2009)
• Contribution of primary care to health systems and health
  Milbank Quarterly (2005)
• Course on global health diplomacy
  Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) (2010)
• COURSE: Innovation and health technology assessment: Improving health system quality
  The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2009)
  The island of San Servolo 26 -31 July, 2009
• Delivering services and influencing policy: Health care professionals join forces to
  International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics (2009)
• Democratization of health in Mexico: Financial innovations for universal coverage
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2009)
• Diseases know no frontiers: How effective are intergovernmental organisations in controlling their spread?
  Authority of the House of Lords, UK (2008)
• Doctor in your pocket: a special report on health and technology
  The Economist (2009)
• Dying to give birth: Fighting maternal mortality In Peru
  Health Affairs (2009)
• Early results from Thailand's 30 Baht health reform: Something to smile about
  Health Affairs (2009)
• Educational outreach visits could improve health-care practices
  WHO (2008)
• Equity-oriented tool kit for health technology assessment
  WHO Collaborating Center for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity (2008)
• Essential Public Health Functions as a Strategy for Improving Overall Health Systems Performance:
  PAHO/WHO (2008)
• Essential public health functions as a strategy for improving overall health systems performance: Trends and challenges since the public health in the Americas Initiative, 2000-2007
  Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (2008)
• Ethics in American Health 1: Ethical Approaches to Health Policy
  Am J Public Health (2008)
• Ethics in American Health 2: An Ethical Framework for Health System Reform
  American Journal of Public Health (2008)
• European perspectives on global health: Policy glossary
  European Foundation Centre, AISBL (2009)
• EUROTHINE - Tackling Health Inequalities In Europe
  EMC (Erasmus MC) Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam (2008)
• Evidence informed health policy
  Implementation Science (2008)
• EVIPNet Americas: informing policies with evidence
  The Lancet (2008)
• Explaining pragmatic trials to pragmatic policy-makers
  Canadian Medical Association Journal (2009)
• Fair tests of health-care policies and treatments: A request for help from readers
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Fatal neglect: How health systems are failing to comprehensively address child mortality
  WaterAid (2009)
• Final reports and additional documents of the Knowledge Networks
  WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) (2008)
• Financial incentives for return of service in underserved areas: A systematic review
  BMC Health Services Research (2009)
• Finding solutions to the human resources for health crisis
  The Lancet (February 2008)
• Foreign policy and global public health: working together towards common goals
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2008)
• Fostering innovation for global health: Global Forum Update on Research for Health Volume 5
  Global Forum for Health Research (2008)
• Framing health and foreign policy: Lessons for global health diplomacy
  Globalization and Health (2010)
• From few to many -Ten years of health insurance expansion in Colombia
  Inter-American Development Bank (2009)
• From Mexico to Mali: Taking stock of achievements in health policy and systems research
  WHO (2008)
• Funding for primary health care in developing countries
  BMJ (2008)
• Future health systems
  Social Science & Medicine (2008)
• Georgia: Health system performance assessment
  WHO (2009)
• Global action for health system strengthening: Policy recommendations to the G8
  Japan Center for International Exchange (2009)
• Global action on health systems: a proposal for the Toyako G8 summit
  The Lancet (2008)
• Global Atlas of the Health Workforce
  WHO (2008)
• Global Gender Gap Index 2010
  World Economic Forum (2010)
• Global Health and Foreign Policy
  Epidemiologic Reviews (2010)
• Global Health Career Network
  Global Health Council (2008)
• Global Health Watch 2: An alternative world health report
  Global Equity Gauge Alliance, People's Health Movement and Medact (2008)
• glossary of culture in epidemiology (A)
  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2008)
• good indicators guide (The): Understanding how to use and choose indicators
  UK NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (2008)
• Guide to develop a health promotion policy and compendium of policies
  Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal (2009)
• Guidelines on incentives for health professionals
  Global Health Workforce Alliance (2008)
• Handbook on monitoring and evaluation of human resources for health
  WHO (2009)
• Health and Social Justice
  Oxford University Press (2010)
• Health care systems of China and India: Performance and future challenges (The)
  Health Affairs (2008)
• Health equity through intersectoral action: An analysis of 18 country case studies
  World Health Organization (WHO) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) (2008)
• Health for all? A critical analysis of public health policies in eight European countries
  Swedish National Institute of Public Health (2008 )
• Health inequalities: progress and next steps
  UK Department of Health (2008)
• Health is Global: a UK Government strategy
  UK Department of Health (2008)
• Health literacy, eHealth, and communication: Putting the consumer first
  Institute of Medicine - Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (2009)
• Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world
  The Lancet (2010)
• Health Systems 20/20 Health Systems Database
  U.S. Agency for International Development (2008)
• Health systems and the right to health: an assessment of 194 countries
  The Lancet (2008)
• How can donors help build global public goods in health?
  World Bank (2009)
• How can gender equity be addressed through health systems?
  WHO Regional Office for Europe, on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2009)
• Human resources for health: a gender analysis
  WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (2007)
• Human rights in healthcare: A framework for local action
  UK Department of Health (2008)
• Improving health service delivery in developing countries
  The World Bank (2009)
• Improving patient safety in the EU: Assessing the expected effects of three policy areas for future action
  Health and Consumer Protection Commission, European Commission (2008)
• Innovations in Global Health in the New Political Era
  Global Health Governance (2009)
• Innovations in primary health care in the Americas
  Journal of Ambulatory Care Management (2009)
• Is private health care the answer to the health problems of the world's poor?
  Public Library of Sciences: Medicine (2008)
• Japan health system review: Health systems in transition
  The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2009)
• Lancet Series on Health System Reform in China
  The Lancet (2008)
• Making health an imperative of foreign policy: The value of a human rights approach
  Health and Human Rights (2010)
• Maximizing positive synergies between health systems and Global Health Initiatives [GHIs]
  WHO (2008)
• Medical education for the 21st century: Teaching for health equity - Call for abstracts
  Ministry of Public Health, Cuba (2008)
• Migration and health: Challenges and trends
  Norwegian Directorate of Health (2009)
• Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health
  Realizing Rights, Health Financing Task Force and the Council of Women World Leaders (2008)
• Mongolian health system at a crossroads (The ): an incomplete transition to a post-Semashkom Model
  The World Bank (2008)
• Monitoring financial flows for health research 2007: Behind the global numbers
  The Global Forum for Health Research (2008)
• Mothers and infants to get free health care in Sierra Leone
  The Lancet (2010)
• Nordic health care systems: Recent reforms and current policy challenges
  World Health Organization on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2010)
• Norway and health: An introduction
  Norwegian Directorate of Health (2009)
• Overcoming social and health inequalities among U.S. women of reproductive age
  Health Policy (2008)
• PAHO/WHO initiative: Proposed harmonized requirements for the licensing of vaccines in the Americas
  Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (2008)
• Physicians, Population Health and the Cuban Paradox
  Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé (2008)
• Population approach and vulnerable populations
  American Journal of Public Health (2008)
• Pregnant women in Nigeria die due to Government negligence, according to Center for Reproductive Rights’ new report
  Centre for Reproductive Rights (2008)
• Primary health care, including health system strengthening
  World Health Organization Executive Board (2009)
• Priority setting in health care: Lessons from the experiences of eight countries
  International Journal for Equity in Health (January 2008)
• Priority setting: what constitutes success? A conceptual framework for successful priority setting
  BMC Health Services Research (2009)
• Public health: ethical issues
  Nuffield Council on Bioethics, London UK (2007)
• Public stewardship of private providers in mixed health systems
  Results for Development Institute (2009)
• Reinventing primary health care: the need for systems integration
  The Lancet (2009)
• Responding to requests for information on health systems from policy makers in Asian countries
  WHO, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (2007)
• Role of intermediaries in getting evidence into policy and practice: Some useful lessons from examining consultancy-client relationships
  Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (2008)
• Rural health: Challenges of distance, opportunities for innovation
  National Health Committee, New Zealand (2010)
• Social change and health in Sweden - 250 years of politics and practice
  Swedish National Institute of Public Health (2008)
• Social determinants of health: The Canadian facts
  Juha Mikkonen and Dennis Raphael (2010)
• Social protection in health schemes for mother and child population: lessons learned from the Latin American Region
  PAHO (2008)
• Social security reforms in Colombia: Striking demographic and fiscal balances
  International Monetary Fund (IMF) (2009)
• Socioeconomic disparities in behavioral risk factors and health outcomes by gender in the Republic of Korea
  BMC Public Health (2010)
• Special edition: India - Towards universal health coverage
  The Lancet (2011)
• State health policies aimed at promoting excellent systems: A report on states’ roles in health systems performance
  National Academy for State Health Policy (2008)
• State of health services in China and India: A larger context (The)
  Health Affairs (2008)
• Study on maternal mortality and neonatal morbidity in Africa
  Rural Integrated Relief Service-Ghana (2008)
• Supporting the delivery of cost-effective interventions in primary health-care systems in low-income and middle-income countries: an overview of systematic reviews
  The Lancet (2008)
• Systems thinking for health systems strengthening
  World Health Organization (2009)
• Tackling health inequalities: ten years on
  Department of Health, UK (2009)
• The European health report 2009: Health and health systems
  WHO Regional Office for Europe (2009)
• The Global Health System: Actors, norms and expectations in transition
  PLoS Medicine (2010)
• The global health system: Lessons for a stronger institutional framework
  PLoS Med (2010)
• The Global Health System: Linking knowledge with action—learning from malaria
  Public Library of Science - Medicine (2010)
• Toward international primary care reform
  Canadian Medical Association Journal (2009)
• Trade and health: An agenda for action
  The Lancet (2009)
• U.S. Commitment to Global Health
  US Institute of Medicine (2008)
• When do vertical (stand-alone) programmes have a place in health systems?
  WHO Regional Office for Europe and European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (2008)
• Which households are at risk of catastrophic health spending: Experience în Thailand after universal coverage
  Health Affairs (2009)
• WHO European Ministerial Conference on Health Systems: Health Systems, Health and Wealth
  WHO Regional Office for Europe (2008)
• Who, and what, causes health inequities?
  J Epidemiol Community Health (2010)
• Wireless technology for social change: Trends in NGO mobile use
  United Nations Foundation (2009)
• World Health Report 2000: 10 years on
  Health Policy and Planning (2010)
• World Health Report 2000: expanding the horizon of health system performance
  Health Policy and Planning (2010)
• World Health Report 2006: Working together for Health
  WHO (2006)
• World Health Report calls for return to primary health care approach
  World Health Organization (2008)
• Your money or your life
  OXFAM International (2009)

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