Improving Health Service Delivery in Developing Countries: From Evidence to Action (Directions in Development) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0821378880 ISBN 13: 9780821378885

Publisher: World Bank Publications, 2009

Synopsis

Reliable information on how health service strategies affect the poor is in short supply. In an attempt to redress the imbalance, 'Improving Health Service Delivery in Developing Countries' presents evidence on strategies for strengthening health service delivery, based on systematic reviews of the literature, quantitative and qualitative analyses of existing data, and seven country case studies. The authors also explore how changes in coverage of different health services affect each other on the national level. Finally, the authors explain why setting international targets for health services has been not been successful and offer an alternative approach based on a specific country's experience. The book's findings are clear and hopeful: There are many ways to improve health services. Measuring change and using information to guide decisions and inform stakeholders are critically important for successful implementation. Asking difficult questions, using information intelligently, and involving key stakeholders and institutions are central to the "learning and doing" practices that underlie successful health service delivery.

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Product Description

Strategies to improve health services in LMICs synthesizes research evidence and knowledge of implementation processes, enabling and inhibiting factors, to assist policy makers, managers and others to address the practical yet complex application of strategies to improve health services in LMICs.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821378880
• ISBN 13: 9780821378885
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Peters David H., El-Saharty Sameh, Siadat Banafsheh, Janovsky Katja