Volume 10 Supplement 1
Scaling-up health services in low- and middle-income settings
Research
Edited by Kara Hanson, Susan Cleary, Helen Schneider, Sripen Tantivess and Lucy Gilson
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Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10(Suppl 1):I1
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Attracting and retaining health workers in rural areas: investigating nurses’ views on rural posts and policy interventions
Kenya has bold plans for scaling up priority interventions nationwide, but faces major human resource challenges, with a lack of skilled workers especially in the most disadvantaged rural areas.
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Financing equitable access to antiretroviral treatment in South Africa
While South Africa spends approximately 7.4% of GDP on healthcare, only 43% of these funds are spent in the public system, which is tasked with the provision of care to the majority of the population including...
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Improving the evidence base of Markov models used to estimate the costs of scaling up antiretroviral programmes in resource-limited settings
Despite concerns about affordability and sustainability, many models of the lifetime costs of antiretroviral therapy (ART) used in resource limited settings are based on data from small research cohorts, toget...
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Differences in antiretroviral scale up in three South African provinces: the role of implementation management
South Africa’s antiretroviral programme is governed by defined national plans, establishing treatment targets and providing funding through ring-fenced conditional grants. However, in terms of the country’s qu...
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Scaling up cervical cancer screening in the midst of human papillomavirus vaccination advocacy in Thailand
Screening tests for cervical cancer are effective in reducing the disease burden. In Thailand, a Pap smear program has been implemented throughout the country for 40 years. In 2008 the Ministry of Public Healt...
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A pharmacy too far? Equity and spatial distribution of outcomes in the delivery of subsidized artemisinin-based combination therapies through private drug shops
Millions of individuals with malaria-like fevers purchase drugs from private retailers, but artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), the only effective treatment in regions with high levels of resistanc...
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Importance of strategic management in the implementation of private medicine retailer programmes: case studies from three districts in Kenya
The home-management of malaria strategy seeks to improve prompt and effective anti-malarial drug use through the informal sector, with a potential channel being the Private Medicine Retailers (PMRs). Previous ...
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Methods for evaluating delivery systems for scaling-up malaria control intervention
Despite increased resources over the past few years the coverage of malaria control interventions is still inadequate to reach national and international targets and achieve the full potential of the intervent...
Citation: BMC Health Services Research 2010 10(Suppl 1):S8