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ICTs and the Challenge of Health System Transition in Low and Middle-Income Countries
Published by: BioMed Central
The aim of this paper is to contribute to debates about how governments and other stakeholders can influence the application of ICTs to increase access to safe, effective and affordable treatment of common illnesses, especially by the poor.
Policy Experimentation and Innovation as a Response to Complexity in China’s Management of Health Reforms
Published by: BioMed Central
There are increasing criticisms of dominant models for scaling up health systems in developing countries and a recognition that approaches are needed that better take into account the complexity of health interventions.
Beyond Pilotitis: Taking Digital Health Interventions to the National Level in China and Uganda
Published by: BioMed Central
Innovation theory has focused on the adoption of new products or services by individuals and their market-driven diffusion to the population at large. However, major health sector innovations typically emerge from negotiations between diverse stakeholders who compete to impose or at least prioritise their preferred version of that innovation.
The Political Economy of State-led Energy Transformations: Lessons from Solar PV in Kenya and China
Published by: STEPS Centre
Amid talk of the need for a low carbon ‘clean energy revolution’ to address the challenges of energy poverty and climate change, there is growing academic and policy interest in understanding the role of key actors that are expected to enable transitions and transformations towards a low carbon economy in a pro-poor way.
Solar PV and poverty alleviation in China: Rhetoric and reality
Published by: STEPS Centre
In 2014, China announced an ambitious plan to help alleviate rural poverty through deploying distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in poor areas