Browsing by Subject "Health systems"

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    • Do social accountability approaches work? A review of the literature from selected low- and middle-income countries in the WHO South-East Asia region 

      Naher, Nahitun; Balabanova, Dina; Hutchinson, Eleanor; Marten, Robert; Hoque, Roksana; Tune, Samiun Nazrin Bente Kamal; Islam, Bushra Zarin; Ahmed, Syed Masud (Oxford Academic, 2020-11-09)
      Governance failures undermine efforts to achieve universal health coverage and improve health in low- and middle-income countries by decreasing efficiency and equity. Punitive measures to improve governance are largely ...

    • The effects of polio eradication efforts on health systems: A cross-country analysis using the Develop–Distort Dilemma 

      Rodriguez, Daniela C; Neel, Abigail H; Mahendradhata, Yodi; Deressa, Wakgari; Owoaje, Eme; Akinyemi, Oluwaseun; Sarker, Malabika; Mafuta, Eric; Gupta, Shiv D; Salehi, Ahmad Shah; Jain, Anika; Alonge, Olakunle (Oxford Academic, 2021-04-21)
      Vertical disease control programmes have enormous potential to benefit or weaken health systems, and it is critical to understand how programmes’ design and implementation impact the health systems and communities in which ...

    • Severe acute malnutrition in Asia 

      Ahmed, Tahmeed; Hossain, Muttaquina; Mahfuz, Mustafa; Choudhury, Nuzhat; Hossain, Mir Mobarak; Bhandari, Nita; Lin, Maung Maung; Joshi, Prakash Chandra; Angdembe, Mirak Raj; Wickramasinghe, V. Pujitha; Hossain, S. M. Moazzem; Shahjahan, Mohammad; Irianto, Sugeng Eko; Soofi, Sajid; Bhutta, Zulfiqar (© 2014 United Nations University Press, 2014-06-01)
      Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is a common condition that kills children and intellectually maims those who survive. Close to 20 million children under the age of 5 years suffer from SAM globally, and about 1 million of ...