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Showing 1 to 20 of 251 for “"Health sector"”.
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Health sector reforms: Factors influencing the policy process for government initiatives in the Punjab (Pakistan) health sector 1993-2000
The health sector in the Punjab (Pakistan) suffers from many shortcomings and to combat these, successive governments undertook different reform interventions. The most critical of these took place during the period 1993-2000, when the Punjab government introduced seven reforms in rapid succession, …
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Corporate governance in the Victorian public health sector
… application of corporate governance in a public sector health service provider in Victoria, Australia. The methodological and analytical approach is based on an adaptation of the Glaser and Strauss’ grounded theory, using ethnographic and survey techniques to collect and describe data so as to …
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Trust and motivation in the health sector : a systematic review
Supporting improved performance of health workers is vital in health system strengthening. There are several factors that have been identified as playing key roles in influencing health worker performance. Motivation of HWs is one of the areas for improving delivery of health care services, yet it …
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Health sector reforms : a study of mutual health organisations in Ghana
<p>This thesis examines the problems of health financing and the emergence of Mutual Health Organisations under the health sector reforms in Ghana. Governments of sub-Saharan Africa region have embraced the Community-based health insurance schemes concept under the health sector reforms, with …
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An Analysis of Health Sector Trends: Incorporating Theories of Unbalanced Growth
International studies of health care expenditures find income elasticities of aggregate demand for health care in the range of 1.0 to 1.5. Applying these same models to a U.S. time series using ordinary least squares to estimate a cointegrating relationship yields estimates in this range. …
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Rethinking health care financing models: the case of Zimbabwe's health sector
… Zimbabwean context. It outlines the evolution of health systems thinking and health funding models over time to show the history and changing landscape of health care financing and their actors. General consensus is there is need to focus on results of health care investments against a background …
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Resource allocation in the Kenyan health sector : a question of equity
… both financial and non-financial resources in the health sector. The study explored how the current resource allocation process has impacted on equity between provinces (equity being defined as equal resources for equal need). It went further to look at possible alternatives that could lead the …
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Development of a cloud based privacy monitoring framework for the health sector
Cloud computing is growing in popularity due to its ability to offer dynamically scalable resources provisioned as services regardless of user or location device. However, moving data to the cloud means that the control of the data is more in the hands of the cloud provider rather than the data …
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Testing times: New Zealand’s clinical laboratories under the 1990s health sector reforms
… a recent period of major neo-liberally driven health sector change in New Zealand. Internationally, although estimates of expenditure on laboratory services vary, the importance attributed to their pivotal role in health decision-making and expenditure is consistent. Consequently, changes …
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Framework for strategic system planning for facilities management in the health sector
… the implementation of strategic FM inthe health sector.In the health sector FM department must be innovative in utilising ITtechnology to deliver value-for-money services. The current uptake of IT in theFacilities Directorate (NHS Trusts) is at an operational level, while thestrategic FM …
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Mapping the potential risk of climate change to South Africa's health sector: An analysis of the Health Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Tool developed for the South African health sector
Health Risk and Vulnerability Assessments are key resources for national health departments to understand how to properly prepare for the impact of climate change on a country's health sector. However, countries often lack the required estimates of future burden of disease and of health services to …
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Management Accounting Change in the Saudi Public Health Sector: A Neo-Institutional Perspective
… at the institutional level, to improving Health Care Quality (HCQ) within the Saudi Arabian Public Health Sector (SAPHS). Analysing these developments as a form of change consistent with the dynamics found in the emergence of New Public Management (NPM), this study draws on …
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The resource allocation process in the health sector in Zambia and issues of equity
… in the formula for allocating resources in the health sector in Zambia as compared to those ones identified in international literature some of which are: population size, demographic composition of population, morbidity/mortality profile, and the socioeconomic status of population.
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Humanitarian and Technical Assistance to the Palestinian Health Sector: Donors' Policy and Behavior Analysis
… and Technical Assistance to the Palestinian Health Sector: Donors’ Policy and Behavior Analysis. Master of Public Health (Health Management and Policy), December 2004, 170pp, 19 Tables, 41 Illustrations, bibliography, 104 titles. International assistance to the Palestinian health sector is …
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Work satisfaction and retention strategies of medical doctors in the South African public health sector
… problems facing the South African public healthcare sector is motivation and retention of the healthcare practitioners. Medical doctors in particular, tend to leave the public sector for the private sector, rural settlements for the urban settlements, the Republic of South Africa for other …
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A critical evaluation of the sector wide approach (SWAp) in the health sector in Zambia
International recognition of the health problems being faced by developing countries have resulted in significant increases in external development assistance for health since the late 1980s. However, it has been established that this aid has not been effective due to poor coordination, …
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Assessing eHealth knowledge diffusion within the public health sector in Kenya using social network analysis
High disease morbidity coupled with limited healthcare personnel places the health sector in Kenya under strain, leaving parts of the population with limited access to health services. Electronic health (eHealth), the utilisation of information and communication technologies in healthcare, is an …
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The Dilemmas Of Public (Middle) Managers Under NPM: Implementing Public Service Outsourcing In Ghana’s Health Sector
… (LCDs) with generally ineffective public sectors; and admittedly an engrained corruption culture, NPM reforms are typified by increased bureaucratic centralisation, which restricts professionals' discretion. Using semi-structured interviews and a range of qualitative analytic devices, this …
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Biomarkers for autoimmunie disease diagnosis in the public health sector: A systematic review and meta-analysis
… severe and mild cases of RA) as compared with healthy controls. Ficolin-3 was significantly upregulated in SLE patients and downregulated in RHD patients, while alpha-2-glycoprotein 1 was significantly upregulated in SLE patients compared to controls. Gelsolin was significantly downregulated in …
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The effects of health sector reform interventions in Egypt on family planning and maternal and child health
… empirical contributions to impact evaluations of health sector interventions in low- and middle-income countries, in light of the interventions introduced under Egypt#s Health Sector Reform Program (HSRP) between 2000 and 2014. We are mainly interested in the effects on family planning and …
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