GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE FOR GLOBAL CHANGE

Aid

Having an effective health system is essential to pro-poor development but it is a complex challenge. IDS research starts from the experience and innovations emerging within developing countries themselves rather than seeking to export models from the OECD countries.

Five key areas of research and policy

IDS research, information services and policy advisory activities on health and rapid change are organised around five key areas of research and policy concern:

1. The challenge of pluralistic health systems
In many developing countries, health services are delivered by a range of service providers and actors. In these settings, how can institutional arrangements for ensuring quality and affordability be developed and how can people access safe and reliable health-related goods and services? What are the implications for strategies for financing health services?

2. The changing nature of regulation and the role of government
How has the spread of markets and integration into the global economy affected the role of government in the health sector? What kinds of regulatory partnerships are emerging, who are the power brokers and what are the implications for policy processes? How can health services be made accountable to the people who use them.

3. Health in the knowledge economy
The rapid spread of the mass media, mobile telephone networks and  the internet is creating new ways for people to get access to medical information and advice without visiting a doctor. How can these developments benefit poor people? What new regulatory challenges do they pose?

4. Rights, entitlements and equity
In contexts of rapid social, economic and ecological change, new patterns of inequality and exclusion are emerging. How can government commitments to 'universal access' be translated into effective rights to safe and effective health services? How can societies meet the rising expectations of people who are benefiting from economic development, while ensuring that the rights and needs of 'hard to reach' people are addressed?

5.  The changing pattern of disease
The world is facing a rapid increase in a number of chronic non-communicable diseases. What aspects of development are contributing to this rapid increase? What can be done to help households cope when a family member becomes seriously ill or disabled? How can health systems change to enable very large numbers of people to manage a chronic, progressive disease?

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AllAfrica and IDS development reporting initiative

IDS and AllAfrica have teamed up to produce and distribute compelling multi-media content on critical issues for Africa’s future, as part of a development reporting initiative. More details

ARCADE HSSR: African Regional Capacity Development for Health Systems and Services Research

A Consortium led by Karolinska Institutet strengthening research training capacity at Sub Saharan African universities for health systems and services development. Focusing on doctoral and post doctoral training, institutional strengthening for education and research management. More details

ARCADE RSDH: Asian Regional Capacity Development for Research on Social Determinants of Health

A Consotiurm lead by Karolinska Institutet developing new research training capacity for low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, to promote research on social determinants of health. The focus is doctoral and post doctoral training, institutional strengthening for education, research management and network building. More details

Childhood Vaccination in West Africa

Vaccines for children are currently high on international policy, aid and funding agendas, as a major promised means to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Yet major challenges have emerged in ensuring effective coverage and dealing with public anxieties. More details

Childhood Vaccination: Science and Public Engagement

Vaccines for children are currently high on international policy, aid and funding agendas, as a major promised means to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Yet major challenges have emerged in ensuring effective coverage and dealing with public anxieties. More details

China Health Development Forum

The China Health Development Forum is an informal association coordinated by the Chinese Health Economics Institute (CHEI) and IDS. More details

Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium

A consortium of researchers aiming to advance understanding of the connections between disease and environment in Africa, focusing on animal-to-human disease transmission.. More details

Ensuring Health Care for the Rural Poor: alternative approaches in China and Vietnam

A comparative study of rural health care services undertaken in collaboration with partners in Vietnam and China. More details

Future Health Systems Research Programme Consortium

Future Health Systems is a research consortium working to improve access, affordability and quality of health services for the poor. More details

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Assessing the Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives

Devlopment Policy Review (Special Issue) (2013)
McGee, R. and Gaventa, J.

Aid Transparency and Accountability: “Build it and they’ll Come”?

In 'Assessing the Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives' (2013)
McGee, R. and Gaventa, J.

The Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives

In 'Assessing the Impact of Transparency and Accountability Initiatives' (2013)
McGee, R. and Gaventa, J.

Reframing Aid in a World Where the Poor Live in Emerging Economies

International Development Policy (2012)
Carbonnier, G. and Sumner, A.

Where Do The Poor Live?

World Development (In Press) (2011)
Sumner, A.

'A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep'? Understanding Support for Aid

Draft IDS Working Paper (2011)
Henson, S. and Lindstrom, J.

The Faith Factor in Development

In 'Time to Reimagine Development' (2011)
Haddad, L., Hossain, N., McGregor, J.A. and Mehta, L.

Poor Countries or Poor People? Development Assistance and the New Geography of Global Poverty

CEPR Discussion Paper 8489 (2011)
Kanbur, R. and Sumner, A.

The Politics and Policy of Aid in Spain

In 'The Politics and Policy of Aid in Spain' (2011)
de la Iglesia-Caruncho, M.

Donor Proliferation and Co-ordination: Experiences of Kenya and Indonesia

Journal of Asian and African Studies 46.2 (2011)
McCormick, D. and Schmitz, H.

The Sociality of International Aid and Policy Convergence

In 'Adventures in Aid Land: The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development' (2011)
Mosse, D.

The Politics and Policy of Aid in Spain

IDS Research Report 65 (2011)
de la Iglesia-Caruncho, M.

Poor Countries or Poor People? Development Assistance and the New Geography of Global Poverty

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management Working Paper (2011)
Kanbur, R. and Sumner, A.
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