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Breast milk as the "water that supports and preserves life"--Socio-cultural constructions of breastfeeding and their implications for the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

Hofmann, Jennifer; De Allegri, Manuela; Sarker, Malabika; … - In: Health Policy 89 (2009) 3, pp. 322-328

Objectives Complementary breastfeeding represents an important source of risk of HIV infection for infants born to HIV positive mothers. The World Health Organisation recommends that infants born to HIV positive mothers receive either replacement feeding or exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) followed...

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Determinants of utilisation of maternal care services after the reduction of user fees: A case study from rural Burkina Faso

De Allegri, Manuela; Ridde, Valéry; Louis, Valérie R.; … - In: Health Policy 99 (2011) 3, pp. 210-218

Objective To identify determinants of utilisation for antenatal care (ANC) and skilled attendance at birth after a substantial reduction in user fees.Methods The study was conducted in the Nouna Health District in north-western Burkina Faso in early 2009. Data was collected by means of a...

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Chile's health sector reform: lessons from four reform periods

la Jara, Jorge Jimenez de; Bossert, Thomas - In: Health Policy 32 (1995) 1-3, pp. 155-166

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Understanding consumers' preferences and decision to enrol in community-based health insurance in rural West Africa

De Allegri, Manuela; Sanon, Mamadou; Bridges, John; … - In: Health Policy 76 (2006) 1, pp. 58-71

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The effect of community-based health insurance on the utilization of modern health care services: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Gnawali, Devendra Prasad; Pokhrel, Subhash; Sié, Ali; … - In: Health Policy 90 (2009) 2-3, pp. 214-222

Objective To quantify the impact of community-based health insurance (CBI) on utilization of health care services in rural Burkina Faso.Methods Propensity score matching was used to minimise the observed baseline differences in the characteristics of insured and uninsured groups such that the...

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Drop-out analysis of community-based health insurance membership at Nouna, Burkina Faso

Dong, Hengjin; De Allegri, Manuela; Gnawali, Devendra; … - In: Health Policy 92 (2009) 2-3, pp. 174-179

Objectives This study aims to identify the reasons why enrolled people decide not to renew their membership in following years.Methods Household survey is used to collect information on the factors influencing dropping out from community-based health insurance (CBI). Information from CBI agency...

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Inclusion of quasi-experimental studies in systematic reviews of health systems research

Rockers, Peter C.; Røttingen, John-Arne; Shemilt, Ian; … - In: Health Policy 119 (2015) 4, pp. 511-521

Systematic reviews of health systems research commonly limit studies for evidence synthesis to randomized controlled trials. However, well-conducted quasi-experimental studies can provide strong evidence for causal inference. With this article, we aim to stimulate and inform discussions on...

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Health workers at the core of the health system: Framework and research issues

Anand, Sudhir; Bärnighausen, Till - In: Health Policy 105 (2012) 2, pp. 185-191

This paper presents a framework for the health system with health workers at the core. We review existing health-system frameworks and the role they assign to health workers. Earlier frameworks either do not include health workers as a central feature of system functioning or treat them as one...

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Study-design selection criteria in systematic reviews of effectiveness of health systems interventions and reforms: A meta-review

Rockers, Peter C.; Feigl, Andrea B.; Røttingen, John-Arne - In: Health Policy 104 (2012) 3, pp. 206-214

At present, there exists no widely agreed upon set of study-design selection criteria for systematic reviews of health systems research, except for those proposed by the Cochrane Collaboration's Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) review group (which comprises randomized...

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