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Accountablity Through Participation: Developing Workable Partnership Models in the Health Sector
Published by: IDS
In recent years there has been a major shift in attitudes from viewing communities as passive recipients of health care, to adoption of new approaches seeking to make more of the potential that active community participation might offer for enhanced accountability and improved responsiveness of services.
Health Care Seeking by the Poor in Transitional Economies: The Case of Vietnam
Published by: IDS
This Report is based on the IDS health team research into the Vietnam health system.
Health and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Published by: IDS
This is a review of the current thinking on issues of health and poverty in Africa. Its purpose is to provide the basis for a programme of work to support and design the implementation of pro-poor health strategies in Africa.
Household Coping Strategies in Response to the Introduction of User Charges of Social Services: A Case Study on Health in Uganda
Published by: IDS
This study examines approaches to health care seeking and financing by households living in communities in two poor rural districts of Uganda.
Financing Health Care in Poor Rural Counties in China: Experience from a Township-Based Co-operative Medical Scheme
Published by: IDS
The economic reform programme in China, which started in the late 1970s, has had a major impact on rural health services.
Financing Health Services in Poor Rural China: A Strategy for Health Sector Reform
Published by: IDS
This paper considers how the systems of finance and management of rural health services have changed due to economic reforms.
Paying for Health: New Lessons from China
Published by: IDS
China's rural health services provided a model for the rest of the world during the 1970s. Since then, China has been undergoing a shift to a market economy. This has had a radical impact on the health sector.
Financing Health Services in Poor Rural Areas: Adapting to Economic and Institutional Reform in China
Published by: IDS
In-depth research in three poor counties in China provides a unique picture of the impact of economic and institutional reform on health services in areas where development lags behind the rest of the country.
Health Expenditure and Finance in Three Poor Counties of China
Published by: IDS
This paper contains reports on health expenditure and finance in the following poor counties in China: Donglan, in Guanxi; Shibing, in Guizhou; and Xunyi in Shaanxi.