Aug 23, 2016 | equity of access to healthcare, health policy analysis
This note is intended for health professionals and officials from the Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso. It summarizes current research findings on dengue in Ouagadougou. This note was published 2016, august and redacted by Yaro S, Carabali M, Lim J, Dahourou D, Kagone ST, Nikiema TJ, Barro SA, Philibert A. et Ridde V.. It was funded by Dengue Vaccine Initiative (DVI), International Vaccine institute (IVI) & the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR, ROH 115213). (more…)
Aug 9, 2016 | health policy analysis, research methodology
This editorial by Valéry Ridde was published august 8, 2016 in the BMJ Global Health Journal. It advocates the need for more and better implementation science in global health. (more…)
Aug 4, 2016 | health policy analysis, research methodology
This article was published in Systematic Reviews in September 2015. The authors of this systematic review, Loubna Belaid, Alexandre Dumont, Nils Chaillet, Vincent De Brouwere, Amel Zertal, Sennen Hounton and Valéry Ridde, seek to assess the impact of demand generation interventions as a strategy to improve uptake and use of contraception in low- and middle-income countries. The entire article is available to download after its abstract hereunder.
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Aug 1, 2016 | health policy analysis
This article was published on July 29th 2016 in Health Economics Review and written by Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, Jessica Spagnolo, Manuela De Allegri and Valéry Ridde. It is a systematic review that examines whether performance-based financing (PBF) represents an efficient manner of investing resources in order to improve healthcare services. (more…)
Jul 11, 2016 | health policy analysis
This article written by Valéry Ridde, Lucie Lechat and Ivlabehire Bertrand Meda was published on the BMJ Global Health Journal on July 7th 2016. The article is about the resilience of the Burkina Faso’s health system following the terrorist attack of January 15th 2016 in Ouagadougou. The article is published in open acces and is available to download under its abstract. (more…)
Jul 6, 2016 | equity of access to healthcare, health policy analysis
This presentation was realised by Valéry Ridde, Emmanuel Bonnet, Christian Dagenais, Ludovic Queuille, Zoumana Traoré, Patrice Sanon, Lucie Lechat and Paul-André Somé for the 22nd IUHPE World Conference for health promotion in Curitiba, Brazil (May 2016). It shortly summarizes the context, the objectives and the implementation of the action research project providing a toll-free number in Burkina Faso to improve health system governance.
