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Improving health service delivery in developing countries : from evidence to action / editors, David H. Peters ... [et al.].
- Title
- Improving health service delivery in developing countries : from evidence to action / editors, David H. Peters ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Washington, DC : World Bank, c2009.
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| Text | Request in advance | RA441.5 .I47 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxii, 338 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Decision makers and the public are in need of information to guide their decisions about how to strengthen health services. This book pulls together available evidence concerning strategies to improve health services delivery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), using current methods to assemble a knowledge base and analyze the findings. It describes the results of reviews of such strategies, and how such strategies can produce gains for the poor. This type of information is intended to help decision makers in LMICs learn from others and from their own experiences, so that they may develop and implement strategies that will improve health services in their own setting. The book provides some suggestions for what works and how to improve implementation, as the evidence does not hold up for 'blueprint' planning. It finds that there are many ways that can succeed in improving health services. But not nearly enough attention has been paid to demonstrating how to improve services for the poor. Approaches that ask difficult questions, use information intelligently, and involve key stakeholders and institutions are critical to 'learning and doing' practices that underlie successful implementation of health services.
- Series Statement
- Directions in development
- Uniform Title
- Directions in development (Washington, D.C.)
- Subject
- Medical care > Developing countries
- Public health > Developing countries
- Health services accessibility > Developing countries
- Delivery of Health Care
- Developing Countries
- Evaluation Studies as Topic
- Health Services
- Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
- State Medicine
- Treatment Outcome
- Outcome Assessment, Health Care
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Review of strategies to strengthen health services -- Review of strategies to strengthen the performance of health organizations -- Review of strategies to improve health care provider performance -- Review of community empowerment strategies for health -- Analysis of cross-country changes in health services -- Institutional context of health services -- Evaluation of changes in health results in World Bank-assisted health projects -- Seven country case studies -- From evidence to learning and doing.
- ISBN
- 9780821378885 (alk. paper)
- 0821378880 (alk. paper)
- 9780821379431 (eISBN)
- 0821379437 (eISBN)
- LCCN
- ^^2009008335
- OCLC
- 312625377
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library