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The aim of Health in All Policies (HiAP) is to bring diverse sectors together to find shared solutions; it focuses on … identifying 'win-win' or 'cobenefits' such that policy measures contribute not only to improved health outcomes but also to … consideration into the policy decision-making process of how public policies and programs affect community health and well-being. It …
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health financing structures such as social health insurance. Verifying that providers have achieved reported performance in …
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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 resources for health, supply chain … management, health care financing, governance and service delivery, and infrastructure. This report describes the changing …
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issue globally, undermining health gains and imposing financial and economic costs on governments and households. NCDs are … an important health challenge in the Pacific. First, (NCDs) can impose large but often preventable health, financial, and … bulk of health services. Second, risk factors in the Pacific are feeding a pipeline of potentially expensive-to-treat NCDs …
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This role of faith-inspired health care providers in sub-saharan Africa and public-private partnerships is comprised of … a three volume series on strengthening the evidence for faith inspired engagement in health in sub-Saharan Africa. An … to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs), especially in the areas of health. This series focuses on assessing …
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This role of faith-inspired health care providers in sub-saharan Africa and public-private partnerships is comprised of … a three volume series on strengthening the evidence for faith inspired engagement in health in sub-Saharan Africa. An … to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs), especially in the areas of health. This series focuses on assessing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667326
Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise … of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the … current and projected future economic conditions. But many of the health burdens and costs can be avoided, or at least delayed …
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Samoa currently faces two important public policy challenges in the health sector. One is to stem, and then reverse …, the rapid rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The second challenge is to put the country on a health-financing path … the share of government expenditure to health; (4) increasing external and donor financing; (5) increasing specific taxes …
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This review represents an attempt to bridge the significant knowledge gaps on the private health sector in Sri Lanka … of health care services. On health service delivery, the review finds that the private sector: includes a range of … public sector for its supply of human resources; and is concentrated in urban areas. The quality of health care services in …
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discontinued Jampersal with the launching of the National Health Insurance Program (JKN) on January 1, 2014. The study?s findings …
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