Mylène Lagarde, Luis Huicho, and Irene Papanicolas discuss different strategies policy makers can use to motivate health providers in order to improve quality of care. The inclusion of universal health coverage as a target ...

Background: As gender is known to be a major determinant of health, monitoring gender equity in health systems remains a vital public health priority. Focusing on a low-income (Peru), middle-income (Colombia), and high-income ...

Introduction: The World Health Organization introduced the workload indicators of staffing needs (WISN) in 1998 to improve country-level health workforce planning. This study presents the primary care health workforce ...

BACKGROUND: Evaluating health systems and policy (HSP) change and implementation is critical in understanding reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) progress within and across countries. Whilst data for ...

The information in health are due to Hippocrates (460-350 BC), who initiated the records with methodical observation of the course of disease, dismissing the supernatural issue in this case, and instituting the disease as ...

This article aims to identify changes in indicators for the organization of children's health services in primary care in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. An evaluative study was conducted with three series of cross-sectional ...

Objective: to evaluate the process and outcome indicators of the prenatal care developed in primary care, comparing traditional care models and the Family Health Strategy. Method: this is a cohort study, conducted with an ...

In the health management field, the use of planning tools, the health information systems and health indicators, are essential to the managers and professionals for performing diagnostic, decision taking, orientation of ...