This article analyzes the strategies implemented by a research team to recruit precarious status migrants for a research project aimed at understanding this populations’ health status and healthcare access in Montreal, Canada. It was published in BMC Medical Research Methodology back in february 2019. (more…)
This article presents the results of a study conducted by Ivlabèhiré Bertrand Meda, Adama Baguiya, Valéry Ridde, Henri Gautier Ouédraogo, Alexandre Dumont and Seni Kouanda in 2016 in Burkina Faso following the implementation of a free health care policy for women. It was published in Health Economics Review in march 2019. (more…)
This article was published in a few days ago in Globalization and Health by Lara Gautier as the second article of her thesis. The article is published in open access and is available to download hereunder. (more…)
The Global Symposium on Health Systems Research is organized every two years by Health Systems Global to bring together the full range of players involved in health systems and policy research and practice. Valéry Ridde and several collaborators, researchers and students, presented some of their work at the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2018) held in Liverpool from October 8th to October 12h, 2018. All the presentations are available hereunder. (more…)
This article is a collaboration between researchers, academics and public health experts from Europe, North America and Africa, working with recipient governments, in research centres and donor organisations, or as individual experts. It presents a critical perspective on how performance-based financing (PBF) is actually implemented and questions the view that PBF in the health sector is an effective, efficient and equitable approach to improving the performance of health systems in low-income and middle-income countries. It was published in january 2018 in BMJ Global Health. (more…)
This study was just published in the Globalization and Health Journal. The authors, Mathieu Seppey, Valéry Ridde, Laurence Touré and Abdourahmane Coulibaly aimed to understand a pilot project’s sustainability process and to assess its level of sustainability. The project’s objective was to improve demand and supply of health services through financing performance.
This study was just published in the Social Science & Medecine Journal. The authors, Oumar Mallé Samb and Valéry Ridde aimed to illustrate the transformative effect that eliminating fees for obstetric care can have on women’s capability to make health decisions and their social position. (more…)
This study was just published in open access in the Volume 7 Issue 10 of BMJ Open Journal. The authors, Samiratou Ouédraogo, Valéry Ridde, Nicole Atchessi, Aurélia Souares, Jean-Louis Koulidiati, Quentin Stoeffler and Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui aimed to identify what makes someone indigent beyond being recognised by the community as needing a card for free healthcare. (more…)
This study is available in open access in the Volume 191 of Social Science & Medicine Journal until November 9th, 2017. The authors, Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, Idriss Ali Gali-Gali, Manuela De Allegri and Valéry Ridde documented the unintended consequences of community verifications for performance-based financing in Burkina Faso through a multiple case study of seven healthcare facilities in Burkina Faso.
Fondation Pierre Fabre will organize its 4th annual conference, entitled “TOWARDS UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVER IN AFRICA: ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS” on October 3, 2017. Valéry Ridde will take part and speak in the afternoon around the second round table of the day on the issue of financing universal health coverage. (more…)