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Strategic Contracting for Health Systems and Services
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 560

Strategic Contracting for Health Systems and Services

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Until the start of the new century, efforts to strengthen health systems focused solely on the public sector and health programs overseen by public bodies. The private sector was sidelined in certain countries and even banned in others. At the same time, some private-sector stakeholders readily adapted themselves to this special situation so as to avoid becoming part of a structured health system.This volume notes profound changes in health care around the world in two areas. The stakeholders involved in the health sector are increasing in number and diversifying as a result of the development of the private sector. They are also responding to a process of democratization and decentralizatio...

Making Health Systems Work in Low and Middle Income Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 643

Making Health Systems Work in Low and Middle Income Countries

This internationally authored textbook demystifies the complexities that health systems pose in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Tackling Wasteful Spending on Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Tackling Wasteful Spending on Health

Countries could potentially spend significantly less on health care with no impact on health system performance, or on health outcomes. This report reviews strategies put in place by countries to limit ineffective spending and waste.

Technologies for Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Technologies for Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-06-15
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  • Publisher: Springer

This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action, medical and information and communication technology, disaster risk-reduction technologies, habitat and sustainable access to energy. The authors discuss how innovative technologies, such as unmanned aerial vehicles for disaster risk reduction, crowdsourcing humanitarian data, online education and ICT-based medical technologies can have significant social impact. The book brings together the best papers of the 2016 International Conference on Technologies for Development at EPFL, Switzerland. The book explores how the gap between innovation in the global South and actual social impact can be bridged. It fosters exchange between engineers, other scientists, practitioners and policy makers active at the interface of innovation and technology and human, social, and economic development.

Spending Wisely
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434

Spending Wisely

This publication examines how public spending on health care can be made more efficient and equitable in developing countries, focusing on strategic purchasing and contracting of services from non-governmental providers. It is divided into six sections under the headings of: the conceptual framework; how to make strategic purchasing pro-poor; purchasing health services; purchasing inputs; supply, demand and markets; legal and regulatory issues.

Bringing Leadership to Life in Health: LEADS in a Caring Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

Bringing Leadership to Life in Health: LEADS in a Caring Environment

This edited volume, featuring five new chapters from invited authors, provides an updated and evidence-based explanation of leadership within a healthcare environment. The book discusses new insights garnered from recent research into the importance of leadership in health system redesign and highlights the practice of shared or distributed health care leadership. New chapters covering LEADS in a national, regional, Indigenous, health profession, and people-centred care context provide new insights into how LEADS is being put to work to transform health systems. The LEADS framework has been refreshed in relation to each of its different elements and tools, with an emphasis on providing real-life examples of how LEADS has been put to work. LEADS is also explained as a change leadership model and in relation to how it helps to level the playing field in terms of gender and diversity in health leadership. The book aims to inform the leadership needs of health reform and its emergent system wide challenges. The content is relevant to health care administrators and professionals working within the public service, academic institutions, and health care delivery organisations.

Mobility of Health Professionals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 183

Mobility of Health Professionals

This book on mobility of health professionals reviews, analyses and summarises published information and data as well as collected interview data from stake holders, including politicians, policy makers, health service managers and migrant health workers. It is based on the research carried out under the umbrella of the EU-funded project “Mobility of Health Professionals (MoHProf). The partners involved in the MoHProf project gathered evidence from 25 countries around basic questions and knowledge gaps relating to the international migration of health professionals, which involved an analysis of migration flows and evaluation of policies addressing migration. This book provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the mobility streams, the motives and driving forces behind them and the impact on and challenges for health systems and draws conclusions and provides recommendations for future strategic planning, monitoring and the management of mobility of health professionals as well as further research and policy development needs.

Increasing Access to Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas Through Improved Retention
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 79

Increasing Access to Health Workers in Remote and Rural Areas Through Improved Retention

Accompanying CD-Rom has same title as book.

Health Reform Meeting the Challenge of Ageing and Multiple Morbidities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Health Reform Meeting the Challenge of Ageing and Multiple Morbidities

This book examines how payment systems, innovation policies and human resource policies need to be modernised so that OECD health systems will continue to generate improved health outcomes in the future at a sustainable cost.

Healthy Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Healthy Development

After an extensive consultative process with governments and global partners, including civil society organizations and bilateral and multilateral organizations, the World Bank's new health, nutrition, and population strategy aims to help developing countries strengthen their health systems and improve the health and well-being of millions of the world's poorest people, boost economic growth, reduce poverty caused by catastrophic illness, and provide the structural "glue" that supports multiple health-related programs within countries."--BOOK JACKET.