Documentos e informes
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Innovations in health service delivery : the corporatization of public hospitals (Chino)
The question of how best to run our hospitals has been a subject of intense interest for decades with a strong focus over the past 15 years. Hospital care is the largest expenditure category in the health...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 26100 Fecha del documento: 31 de octubre de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Harding,April L.,Preker,Alexander S.
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Information and communication technologies for health systems strengthening : opportunities, criteria for success, and innovation for Africa and beyond (Inglés)
Information and communication technologies (ICT) for health or eHealth solutions hold great potential for generating systemic efficiencies by strengthening five critical pillars of a health system: human...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 94943 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Otto, Kate,Shekar,Meera,Herbst,Christopher H.,Mohammed-Roberts,Rianna L.
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Health financing and delivery in Vietnam : looking forward (Inglés)
This book reviews Vietnam's successes and the challenges it faces, and goes on to suggest some options for further reforming the country's health system. Options for expanding coverage to 100 percent of...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 47388 Fecha del documento: 23 de enero de 2009 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lieberman,Samuel S.,Wagstaff, Adam
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Performance-based contracting for health services in developing countries : a toolkit (Inglés)
This toolkit provides practical advice to anyone involved in, or who is interested in becoming involved in, performance-based contracting of health services with non state providers in the context of developing...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 44821 Fecha del documento: 12 de junio de 2008 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Loevinsohn,Benjamin P.
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AIDS in South Asia : understanding and responding to a heterogenous epidemic (Inglés)
South Asia's HIV epidemic is highly heterogeneous. As a result, informed, prioritized, and effective responses necessitate an understanding of the epidemic diversity between and within countries. Further...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 37093 Fecha del documento: 8 de agosto de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Blanchard,James Frederick,Kang,Han,Moses, Stephen
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The economics of effective AIDS treatment : evaluating policy options for Thailand (Tailandés)
The purpose of this report is to advise the Thai government and Thai society at large about the full range of benefits, costs, and consequences that are likely to result from the decision to expand public...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 37449 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Revenga,Ana L.,Over,A. Mead,Masaki,Emiko,Peerapatanapokin, Wiwat,Gold,Julian,Tangcharoensathien,Viroj,Thanprasertsuk, Sombat
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India's undernourished children : a call for reform and action (Inglés)
The prevalence of child undernutrition in India is among the highest in the world; nearly double that of Sub-Saharan Africa, with dire consequences for morbidity, mortality, productivity and economic growth...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 36805 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bredenkamp,Caryn,Das Gupta,Monica,Gragnolati,Michele,Lee,Yi-Kyoung,Shekar,Meera
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The economics of effective AIDS treatment : evaluating policy options for Thailand (Inglés)
The purpose of this report is to advise the Thai government and Thai society at large about the full range of benefits, costs, and consequences that are likely to result from the decision to expand public...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 37449 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Revenga,Ana L.,Over,A. Mead,Masaki,Emiko,Peerapatanapokin, Wiwat,Gold,Julian,Tangcharoensathien,Viroj,Thanprasertsuk, Sombat
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L'assurance maladie en Afrique francophone : ameliorer l'acces aux soins et lutter contre la pauvrete (Francés)
This book presents a panoramic view of the state of health insurance and health financing in Francophone Africa. For the most part health insurance in the region currently covers 1 -3 percent of the population...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 37149 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Audibert,Martine,Blaise, Pierre,Brouillet, Pascal,Carrin, Gary,Criel, Bart,Tkint De Roodenbeke,Eric Andre,Doetinchem, Ole,Dussault, Gilles [editor],Evans, David,Ferette, Daniel,Fournier, Pierre [editor],Galland,Bruno,Haddad,Slim,James, Chris,Letourmy,Alain,Letourmy, Alain [editor],Mathonnat,Jacky P.,Morestin, Florence,N'diaye, Pascal,Noirhomme,Mathieu,Ouattara, Oumar,Preker,Alexander S.,Sery,Jean-Pierre,Thome, Jean-Marie,Tourigny, Caroline,Velenyi,Edit V.
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HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in India : modeling the cost and consequences (Inglés)
How should governments respond to the increasing domestic and international pressures to finance antiretroviral therapy for AIDS patients? Once prohibitively expensive outside rich countries, antiretroviral...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 29706 Fecha del documento: 23 de junio de 2004 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Gold,Julian,Gupta,Indrani,Heywood,Peter F.,Hira,Subhash Khimandas,Marseille,Elliot Alexander,Over,A. Mead
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Addressing HIV/AIDS in East Asia and the Pacific (Inglés)
With almost half the world's population, Asia will determine the future of the global human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) pandemic. If prevalence rates in China...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 30120 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2004 Autor: Preker, Alexander S. [editor]
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Investing in maternal health : learning from Malaysia and Sri Lanka (Inglés)
This study provides the most comprehensive and detailed analysis available on factors behind the decline in maternal mortality in Malaysia and Sri Lanka in the past 50 to 60 years and the magnitude of...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 25901 Fecha del documento: 31 de diciembre de 2003 Autor: Pathmanathan, Indra,Liljestrand, Jerker,Martins,
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Health economics in development (Inglés)
The papers in this collection span 21 years of thinking and writing about health economics, first at the Pan American Health Organization (1982-1990) and then at the World Bank (1990-2002, including two...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 27927 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2003 Autor: Musgrove,Philip A.
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Health policy research in South Asia : building capacity for reform (Inglés)
The richness of the research papers in this volume makes it difficult to quickly capture the main themes and implications of their research. But three repeated themes can be highlighted: equality of public...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 27210 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2003 Autor: Yazbeck,Abdo S.,Peters,David H.
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El VIH / SIDA en países de América Latina (prólogo y prefacio) (Español)
La situación del VIH/SIDA en América Latina se sitúa en un marco endémico bajo. En la mayoría de los países, la epidemia se concentra todavía en las poblaciones de alto riesgo: hombres que tienen sexo...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 27581 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2003 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Anabela Garcia Abreu, Isabel Noguer, and Karen Cowgill
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HIV/AIDS in Latin American countries : the challenges ahead (Vol. 1 of 2) (Inglés)
HIV/AIDS in Latin America falls within the framework of a low endemic setting. In the majority of the countries, the epidemic is still concentrated in high-risk populations: men who have sex with men (MSM)...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 27581 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2003 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Anabela Garcia Abreu, Isabel Noguer, and Karen Cowgill
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Reducing maternal mortality - learning from Bolivia, China, Egypt, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, and Zimbabwe (Inglés)
Of the 515,000 maternal deaths that occur every year worldwide, 99 percent take place in developing countries. Women In the developing world have a 1 in 48 chance of dying from pregnancy-related causes;...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 25953 Fecha del documento: 30 de abril de 2003 Autor: Koblinsky, Marjorie A. [editor],Campbell, Oona,D
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Private participation in health services (Inglés)
Private participation in health services is often a controversial issue, although many countries already make use of private services to further aims in health care. The book draws on a wide range of country...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 26063 Fecha del documento: 31 de enero de 2003 Autor: Harding, April,Preker, Alexander S.
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Innovations in health service delivery : the corporatization of public hospitals (Inglés)
The question of how best to run our hospitals has been a subject of intense interest for decades with a strong focus over the past 15 years. Hospital care is the largest expenditure category in the health...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 26100 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2003 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Harding,April L.,Preker,Alexander S.
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Social Reinsurance - a new approach to sustainable community health financing (Inglés)
Including health issues at the top of the political agenda, is an indictor for national development. Breaking the vicious cycle of low resources leading to illness, and illness leading to poverty, is a...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 26528 Fecha del documento: 30 de diciembre de 2002 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Dror, David M. [editor],Preker,Alexander S.