Feb 13, 2018 | equity of access to healthcare, health policy analysis
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…)
Sep 20, 2017 | health policy analysis
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.
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Jul 3, 2017 | equity of access to healthcare
This article, published on July 3rd, 2017 in the International Journal of Health Planning and Management, was written by Valéry Ridde, Maurice Yaogo, Sylvie Zongo, Paul‐André Somé & Anne‐Marie Turcotte‐Tremblay. The study analysed health care performance-based financing implementation in Burkina Faso 12 months post‐launch in late 2014.
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Jun 5, 2017 | equity of access to healthcare, research methodology
This article, written by Emmanuel Bonnet, Aude Nikiéma, Zoumana Traoré, Salifou Sidbega and Valéry Ridde, was published on June 2nd, 2017, in the Volume 10, issue 1 of the Global Health Action Journal. It presents the methodology and implementation of, and quality of results produced by, technological solutions for a road traffic crash and trauma surveillance system in the city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. (more…)
Apr 27, 2017 | research methodology
McGill Global Health Programs and the Université de Montréal Chair REALISME (Interventional applied research in global health and equity) held on last April 20th, 2017, a Global Health Workshop, Methods For Implementation Science in Global Health, at McGill University. The purpose was to try to understand why do interventions work in one “real world” setting and not another.
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