Learning from health system reforms: lessons from Burkina Faso

Health Providers’ Perceptions of Clinical Trials: Lessons from Ghana, Kenya and Burkina Faso

BACKGROUND Clinical trials conducted in Africa often require substantial investments to support trial centres and public health facilities. Trial resources could potentially generate benefits for routine health service delivery but may have unintended consequences. Strengthening ethical practice requires understanding the potential effects of trial inputs on the perceptions and practices of rou...

Learning from Thailand's health reforms.

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Spatial inequalities explained: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the sources of spatial disparities in incomes among households in Burkina Faso. We show that spatial dispa...

Lessons from the past decade for future health reforms.

Maternal Mortality in Burkina Faso: A Method from Population

Estimate of maternal mortality level is one of the important challenges surrounding the issue. Measurement of maternal mortality is a constant challenge for researchers and planners both in rich and poor countries (1, 2). The lack of data and the poor quality of existent information in many countries motivated United Nation agencies and many researchers to focus on estimating the level of mater...