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Mobile Money for Health

Digital Finance, Publications

Resource Type: White Paper Authors: Sherri Haas, Marilyn Heymann, Pamela Riley, and Abeba Taddese Published: 11/1/2013 Resource Description: Mobile money provides unique opportunities in the health sector. It can be integrated into existing activities—replacing cash flows—to improve efficiency, accountability, and transparency in financial transactions. It also opens up potential to improve scalability of subsidy and incentive schemes and […]

Angola’s MOH Champions New Health Strategy

Announcements

To mobilize more domestic resources for health, countries need to accurately estimate the cost of their national health strategies and health sector plans. In Angola, the HFG project worked closely with the Ministry of Health to complete the costing of Angola’s National Plan for Health Development 2012–2025 or PNDS.  As part of Angola’s broader economic […]

How Does Malaria Control Impact the Health System?

Announcements

An HFG study in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene finds that facility-level resources were freed up as malaria was controlled at two hospitals in Zambia, potentially making  those resources available for addressing other diseases and health conditions. The study, “Hospitalizations and Costs Incurred at the Facility Level after Scale-up of Malaria Control: Pre-Post Comparisons from Two Hospitals in […]

Hospitalizations and Costs Incurred at the Facility Level after Scale-up of Malaria Control: Pre-Post Comparisons from Two Hospitals in Zambia

Journal Publications, Malaria and Other Vector-borne Disease, Vector-borne Diseases

There is little evidence on the impact of malaria control on the health system, particularly at the facility level. Using retrospective, longitudinal facility-level and patient record data from two hospitals in Zambia, we report a pre-post comparison of hospital admissions and outpatient visits for malaria and estimated costs incurred for malaria admissions before and after […]

An Analysis of Spending on Prevention and Public Health in Africa

Health Systems Research, Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Resource Type: Report Authors:  Avril Kaplan, Sharon Nakhimovsky, Andrew Won, and Carlos Avila Published: 08/25/2013 Resource Description:  In an effort to examine government and donor spending on health promotion and disease prevention compared to other health sector areas, an HFG report, An Analysis of Spending on Prevention and Public Health in Africa, used National Health Accounts […]

System of Health Accounts 2011: What is SHA 2011 and How Are SHA 2011 Data Produced and Used?

Publications, Resource Tracking (NHA, SHA)

Resource Type: Brief Authors: Heather Cogswell,  Catherine Connor, Tesfaye Dereje, Avril Kaplan, and Sharon Nakhimovsky Published: 09/2013 Resource Description: Health resource tracking is the process of measuring health spending and the flow of financial resources among health sector actors. Health resource tracking is a vital component of health systems strengthening as it provides stakeholders with […]

Health Systems 20/20 Final Project Report

Health Systems 20/20 Project, Publications

Resource Type: Report Authors: Health Systems 20/20 Published: 9/28/2012 Resource Description: Health Systems 20/20 is the United States Agency for International Development‘s (USAID) flagship project for strengthening health systems worldwide. Launched in 2006, Health Systems 20/20 has responded to more than 250 activity requests in 51 countries, helping to eliminate barriers to the delivery and use […]

Nigeria TB Supportive Supervision Pilot Evaluation

HIV/AIDS, Human Resources for Health, Publications

Resource Type: Report Authors: Elizabeth Ohadi, Leah Ekbladh, Anthony Okwuosah, Alison Comfort, and Alexandra Hulme Published: 9/28/2012 Resource Description: According to the WHO, Nigeria ranks 13th out of the top 22 high burden Tuberculosis (TB) countries in the world, and there is a need to improve the TB-DOTS and TB-HIV services in Nigeria’s public sector facilities. Weak supportive supervision […]

Indicators for Measuring Universal Health Coverage: A Five-Country Analysis (DRAFT)

Publications, Universal Health Coverage

Resource Type: Report Authors: Sherri Haas, Laurel Hatt, Anthony Leegwater, Marianne El-Khoury, and Wendy Wong Published: 9/1/2012 Resource Description: This study aimed to advance the dialogue on measurement of universal health coverage (UHC) by taking a practical, bottom-up approach — specifically, cataloguing indicators of UHC that have already been defined in the literature, assessing the feasibility of producing those […]

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