نتایج جستجو برای: lmics health financing

تعداد نتایج: 991636  

2016
Richard Seifman Rebecca Katz

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations, was established in 1977 in response to the food crises earlier in that decade. Its mission is to assist the rural and peri-urban poor in low and middle income countries (LMICs), especially the individuals, families and small land holders, to improve livelihoods and more broadly the...

Journal: :iranian journal of public health 0
m abolhallaje research center for health services management, kerman university of medical science, kerman, iran ; budget and performance monitoring, ministry of health and medical education, tehran, iran. sa hasani p bastani m ramezanian m kazemian

this study will provide detailed specification of those variables and determinants of unpredictable health expenditure in iran, and the requirements to reduce extensive effects of the factors affecting households' payments for health and other goods and services inappropriately.this study aims to identify measures of fair financing of health services and determinants of fair financing contribut...

Journal: :Health economics 2007
Eddy van Doorslaer Owen O'Donnell Ravindra P Rannan-Eliya Aparnaa Somanathan Shiva Raj Adhikari Charu C Garg Deni Harbianto Alejandro N Herrin Mohammed Nazmul Huq Shamsia Ibragimova Anup Karan Tae-Jin Lee Gabriel M Leung Jui-Fen Rachel Lu Chiu Wan Ng Badri Raj Pande Rachel Racelis Sihai Tao Keith Tin Kanjana Tisayaticom Laksono Trisnantoro Chitpranee Vasavid Yuxin Zhao

Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. We estimate the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population. We focus on payments that are catastrophic, in the sense of severely disrupting household living standards, and approximate such payments...

Journal: :Health affairs 1999
K Donelan R J Blendon C Schoen K Davis K Binns

Many nations have undergone changes in health care financing and services. The public notices policy changes in health care and frequently bears new and unexpected costs or barriers to care unwillingly. This paper presents data from surveys of about 1,000 adults conducted during April-June 1998 in each of five countries--Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States-...

1995
Katharine R. Levit Helen C. Lazenby Cathy A. Cowan Darleen K. Won Jean M. Stiller Lekha Sivarajan Madie W. Stewart

The dynamics of financing health care among various levels of government and the private sector are rapidly changing; structural relationships among health care providers are also being altered. These changes are placing increased importance on State-level expenditure estimates that will be instrumental in measuring the differential impact of Federal policies and State-specific initiatives on i...

2017
Lindsay M Jaacks Alexandra L Bellows

Jaacks LM, Bellows AL. BMJ Glob Health 2017;2:e000564. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000564 Hippocrates (fifth century BCE), the father of medicine and namesake of the Oath many medical students swear by to this day, was among the first to recognise the centrality of diet in disease prevention and treatment. In that Oath, the statement, ‘I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick accor...

2016
C. L. H. Bockting A. D. Williams K. Carswell A. E. Grech

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are confronted with a serious 'mental health gap', indicating an enormous disparity between the number of individuals in need of mental health care and the availability of professionals to provide such care (WHO in 2010). Traditional forms of mental health services (i.e. face-to-face, individualised assess...

2017
Mark T Carew Stine Hellum Braathen Leslie Swartz Xanthe Hunt Poul Rohleder

BACKGROUND Although approximately 80% of the global population of people with disabilities reside in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), very little is known about their sexual lives due to a lack of empirical data. We aimed to provide a scoping review of English-language research conducted on disability and sexuality in LMICs. OBJECTIVE Our research questions concerned what topics in d...

Journal: :international journal of health policy and management 2015
asmat ullah malik

systems thinking is not a new concept to health system strengthening; however, one question remains unanswered: how policy-makers, system designers and consultants with a system thinking philosophy should act (have acted) as potential change agents in actually gaining opportunities to introduce systems thinking? development of comprehensive multi-year plans (cmyps) for immunization system is on...

Journal: :Science translational medicine 2013
Mohammed K Ali Cristina Rabadán-Diehl John Flanigan Claire Blanchard K M Venkat Narayan Michael Engelgau

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are increasingly getting attention from different forums, including media outlets, health agencies, and the public and private sectors. Progress is being made in addressing NCDs, though more slowly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as compared with high-income settings. Here, we offer an analysis of the challenges faced in LMICs. We discuss realistic st...

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