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| Barbara McPakeSummaryAffiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Country: UK Publications
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Saving the lives of vulnerable childrenBarbara McPake
Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1 7HT, UK
Lancet 365:2154-6. 2005
What can be done about the private health sector in low-income countries?Anne Mills
Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, England
Bull World Health Organ 80:325-30. 2002..There is much less evidence, however, of effective approaches to interventions on the demand side and policies that involve strengthening the purchasing and regulatory roles of governments...- Making choices between prepayment and user charges in Zambia. What are the results for equity?Masahide Kondo
Department of Health Care Policy and Management, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Health Econ 16:1371-87. 2007..However, since prepayment seems to be associated with the most positive outcomes, finding other solutions to their problems would be preferred... - To retain or remove user fees?: reflections on the current debate in low- and middle-income countriesChris D James
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Appl Health Econ Health Policy 5:137-53. 2006..Analysis should move on from broad evaluations of user fees towards exploring how best to dismantle the multiple barriers to access in specific contexts... - Measuring the quality of hospital tuberculosis services: a prospective study in four Zimbabwe hospitalsCharles Hongoro
Aurum Health Research, Economics and Health Systems, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Int J Qual Health Care 17:287-92. 2005..To show how the use of a prospective approach to measuring the quality of services for a specific diagnosis can generate useful information for improving the quality of services in environments with limited information technology and data... - Preferences for hospital quality in Zambia: results from a discrete choice experimentKara Hanson
Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Health Econ 14:687-701. 2005..The disutility of cost was found to decrease with higher socioeconomic status, as was the value of drug availability. The implications of the findings for Zambian hospital sector reforms are discussed... - The devil is in the detailMartin McKee
European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT
BMJ 329:1175-6. 2004 - How to bridge the gap in human resources for healthCharles Hongoro
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Lancet 364:1451-6. 2004..Among available strategies to address the problems, expansion of the numbers of doctors and nurses through training is highly constrained. This is a difficult issue involving the interplay of multiple factors and forces... - Is the Colombian health system reform improving the performance of public hospitals in Bogotá?Barbara McPake
Health Economics and Financing and Health System Development Programmes, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Health Policy Plan 18:182-94. 2003..It is difficult to attribute specific causality to all of the changes measured and this reflects the inherent difficulty of judging the effects of large-scale reform programmes as well as weaknesses and gaps in the data available... - Hospital costs of high-burden diseases: malaria and pulmonary tuberculosis in a high HIV prevalence context in ZimbabweCharles Hongoro
Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Trop Med Int Health 8:242-50. 2003..The present study found that the critical source of efficiency variation in public hospitals in Zimbabwe lies in the way hospital beds are used... - What can be done about the private health sector in low-income countries?Anne Mills
Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, England
World Hosp Health Serv 38:24-30, 41-4. 2002..There is much less evidence, however, of effective approaches to interventions on the demand side and policies that involve strengthening the purchasing and regulatory roles of governments... - Markets for hospital services in ZambiaPamela Nakamba
Department of Economics, University of Zambia
Int J Health Plann Manage 17:229-47. 2002.... - Towards improving hospital performance in Uganda and Zambia: reflections and opportunities for autonomyKara Hanson
Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Health Policy 61:73-94. 2002.... - Human resources in health: putting the right agenda back to the frontCharles Hongoro
Trop Med Int Health 8:965-6. 2003 
Salaries and incomes of health workers in sub-Saharan AfricaDavid McCoy
Centre for International Health and Development, University College London, UK
Lancet 371:675-81. 2008..Fiscal constraints to increased salaries might need to be overcome in many countries, and non-financial incentives improved...- Improving maternal health: getting what works to happenLoveday Penn-Kekana
Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Reprod Health Matters 15:28-37. 2007.... - Two-tier charging strategies in public hospitals: implications for intra-hospital resource allocation and equity of access to hospital servicesBarbara McPake
Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
J Health Econ 26:447-62. 2007..Under a range of assumptions, the policy will evoke cross-subsidy from basic to superior services... - Task shifting in health care in resource-poor countriesBarbara McPake
Institute for International Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh EH21 6UU, UK
Lancet 372:870-1. 2008