Ethiopia Health Sector Development Program HSDPIII 2005/6-2010/11 Mid Term Review
Background: Private for-profit health facilities in Ethiopia are flourishing and contributing to improved access to health care in almost all urban areas of the country. The Private Health Sector Program (PHSP), a USAID-funded program implemented by Abt Associates, is working with the Federal Mini...
Program-specific CHWs, e.g., providing malaria control in Colombia, Guinea worm disease and onchocerciasis in Africa; injectable contraceptives in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda; AIDS or tuberculosis care in New York City; immunization and discovery of unmanaged diabetes and hypertension in low-income ho...
German Food Partnership brings private sector to the table Est. 8min SPECIAL REPORT / The German government speaks of a paradigm shift in development policy, where the public and private sector partner with local farmers to fight hunger in the developing world. But NGOs have called the German...
In Ethiopia, while there is not yet a health insurance mandate, the state has strongly promoted CBHI expansion, with the scheme now covering 11 million people, some 16 per cent of the informal sector, according to sources (int. respondent EC7, see list at the end of the paper). If ...
Because of causalities, the health sector requires additional financial support to address the increased demand for health services; however, movement restrictions limit people’s access to participate in gainful activities [30]. Low funds from international donors were erratic and far below the amount...
An example of a large-scale pattern of hierarchical gender inequality is evident in a sector where care is delivered by women but led by men [4]. The deference expected from nurses, midwives and other paramedical cadres in relation to physicians is transmitted through beliefs about differential ...
nonclinicalservices,userfeesettingandrevision,initiationofcompulsoryhealthinsurance(community-basedhealthinsuranceandsocialhealthinsurance),establishmentofaprivatewinginpublichospitals,andhealthfacilityautonomywerethemaincomponentsofthehealthcarefinancingreforminEthiopia.Althoughlimited,theevidenceshowsthatthereisincreased...
A window of opportunity for reform in post-conflict settings? The case of Human Resources for Health policies in Sierra Leone, 2002–2012 Confl Health, 8 (2014), p. 11 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar [7] G.A. Bowen Document analysis as a qualitative research method Qualitative Res J, 9 (...
There have been no confirmed cases of the virus so far in Africa, but suspected victims have been quarantined in Ethiopia, Kenya, Ivory Coast and Botswana. Countries around the world are on high alert after the WHO declared it a global health emergency last week due to its rapid spread. Th...