Reaching out Beyond the Health Sector    [749 kb / PDF]
Date of Publication: January 01, 1999
Powerpoint Presentation

Réforme du secteur de la santé au Karibuni    [35 k / PDF]

Author(s):

Marc Mitchell

Date of Publication: March 25, 1998
Using the Harvard Business School case methodology, participants are introduced to the Republic of Karibuni, a fictional country in East Africa which is going through a series of health system reforms. Participants will first meet in small groups to discuss the case, with each group focusing special attention on the perspective of one of the stakeholders of the case: ¨ The Minister of Health, Dr. Mkubwa ¨ The Assistant Secretary for Health Sector Reform, Dr. Tumaini ¨ The Assistant Secretary for Health Services, Dr. Kupiga ¨ A Provincial Health Officer ¨ A Provincial Administrative Officer ¨ A patient of a health clinic asking for help with her infertility. ¨ A member of the World Bank team monitoring progress of the new project. Each group will discuss the questions at the end of the case and then consider the reforms being proposed from the perspective of the stakeholder assigned to that group. Following the discussion in small groups, the case will be discussed in plenary session. This case study can be found in French and English on this web site.

Report of the Health Reform and HIV Workshop, Geneva, June 1998    [195 kb / PDF]

Author(s):

UNAIDS

Date of Publication: June 18, 1998
This agenda will focus on the health reforms required to effectively implement a local expanded response to HIV/AIDS. Sharing common goals and a common framework, local actors will document progress on responding to AIDS, and articulate key reforms required for achieving and maintaining such progress. They will exchange lessons as they learn them. Hence, action will drive global learning by implementers, policy makers, development organisations and civil society. (From UNAIDS web site at http://www.unaids.org/psr/)

Report on Health Reform and HIV Workshop: An Agenda for Health Reform and HIV    [195 kb / PDF]

Author(s):

World Health Organization UNAIDS

Date of Publication: June 18, 1998
Report

Report on Symposium on Population Change and Economic Development    [90 kb / PDF]

Author(s):

Nancy Birdsall Steven Sinding

Date of Publication: December 07, 1999
This is the Chairman’s Report on a technical symposium held as one of the preliminary meetings to the ICPD+5 Forum in The Hague, Netherlands, and the Preparatory Committee Meeting (Prepcom) for the 1999 Special Session of the UN General Assembly. The Symposium reviewed new evidence on the effects of demographic change on economic growth, on poverty and inequality, and on sustainable use of natural resources, since the 1994 ICPD in Cairo, then further considered the extent to which new evidence might bear on future development policies and programs.

Reproductive Change in the Arab Region    [458 kb / Microsoft PowerPoint]

Author(s):

John Casterline

Date of Publication: May 08, 2000
Powerpoint Presentation for the Cairo Distance Learning Overview Module, 13-24 May 2000, by John Casterline, Population Council, New York

Reproductive Change in the Arab Region: Past Trends, Future Scenarios    [198 KB / PDF]

Author(s):

John Casterline

Date of Publication: May 01, 2000
Powerpoint Presentation of lecture on Changing Demographics of Arab Countries

Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights in Arab Countries   

Author(s):

Fatma Khafagy

Date of Publication: October 09, 2000

Reproductive Health Costs--Literature Review    [181 kb / PDF]

Author(s):

William McGreevey Elizabeth A. Mumford Varuni Dayaratna William Winfrey Jeffrey Sine

Date of Publication: December 13, 1999
Oxford University Press. The goal of the POLICY Project is to create supportive policy environments for family planning and reproductive health programs through the promotion of a participatory policy process and population policies that respond to client needs. Issues of reproductive health finance are central to policy and operational decisions regarding the provision of reproductive health services to clients. POLICY undertook this review to inform policymakers and program planners interested in reproductive health cost information about the availability of information for different services, in various settings, and in different countries. This review is not an evaluation of the quality of the cost methodologies used and does not attempt to provide guidelines for future costing studies.

Resource Mobilization and Health Sector Reform In Bolivia: The Prosalud Experience   

Author(s):

Carlos Cuéllar

Date of Publication: January 12, 2000

This paper focuses on a resource mobilization strategy, which aims to transfer part of the burden of health services from public funds to the users via existing private/non-governmental structures. The paper illustrates how PROSALUD, a Bolivian NGO, has effectively expanded the access, quality and coverage of health services to low income communities by mobilizing community resources. Through an integrated, client-centered approach, PROSALUD delivers a sustainable, low cost, primary health care based services to under served communities, and complements Bolivian Government efforts to reform the health sector.