Gerald Bloom, Hilary Standing, Henry C. Lucas, Abbas Bhuiya et al.
There has been a dramatic spread of market relationships in many low- and middle-income countries. This spread has been much faster than the development of the institutional arrangements to influence the performance of health service providers. In many countries poor people obtain a large proportion...
Adnan A. Hyder, S. Syed, Prasanthi Puvanachandra, Gerald Bloom et al.
Objectives Future Health Systems: Innovations for Equity (FHS) is working in six partner countries in Asia and Africa, focusing on strengthening the research-policy interface in relation to specific health system research projects. These projects present an opportunity to study the influence of stak...
Tanvir Ahmed, Syed Jafar Raza Rizvi, Sabrina Rasheed, Mohammad Iqbal et al.
BACKGROUND: Globally, the rapid growth of technology and its use as a development solution has generated much interest in digital health. In line with global trends, Bangladesh is also integrating technology into its health system to address disparities. Strong political endorsement and uptake of di...
Tanvir Ahmed, Gerald Bloom, Mohammad Iqbal, Henry C. Lucas et al.
There is growing enthusiasm amongst analysts of global health for the possibilities opened up by the rapid spread of mobile phone coverage. This includes substantially increasing access to health-related information and advice and to expert medical consultations. Some argue we are reaching a tipping...
Gerald Bloom, Evangelia Berdou, Hilary Standing, Zhilei Guo et al.
The aim of this paper is to contribute to debates about how governments and other stakeholders can influence the application of ICTs to increase access to safe, effective and affordable treatment of common illnesses, especially by the poor. First, it argues that the health sector is best conceptuali...
Gerald Bloom, Barun Kanjilal, Henry C. Lucas, David H. Peters
1. Introduction Gerald Bloom, Barun Kanjilal, Henry Lucas, David P. Peters and Hilary Standing 2. Transition in the Indian Healthcare Market Barun Kanjilal and Sumit Mazumdar 3. Lessons from an Intervention Programme to make Informal Health Care Providers Effective in a Rural Area of Bangladesh Moha...
Shamsuzzoha B Syed, Adnan A. Hyder, Gerald Bloom, Sandhya Sundaram et al.
The complex evidence-policy interface in low and middle income country settings is receiving increasing attention. Future Health Systems (FHS): Innovations for Equity, is a research consortium conducting health systems explorations in six Asian and African countries: Bangladesh, India, China, Afghan...
Adnan A. Hyder, Carleigh Krubiner, Gerald Bloom, Abbas Bhuiya
Over the past few decades, there has been increasing attention focused on the ethics of health research, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Despite the increasing focus on the literature addressing human protection, community engagement, appropriate consent procedures and ways to miti...
Gerald Bloom, Annie Wilkinson, Abbas Bhuiya
This paper introduces the Thematic Issue on Innovation in Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Tanvir Ahmed, Syed Jafar Raza Rizvi, Sabrina Rasheed, Mohammad Iqbal et al.
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Globally, the rapid growth of technology and its use as a development solution has generated much interest in digital health. In line with global trends, Bangladesh is also integrating technology into its health system to address disparities. Strong political endorsem...
Tanvir Ahmed, Gerald Bloom, Mohammad Iqbal, Henry C. Lucas et al.
Gerald Bloom, Barun Kanjilal, Henry C. Lucas, David H. Peters et al.
Gerald Griffin
December 01 2007 American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau...
Shirin M. Rai, Sudarshan Sathianathan, Gerald Studdert‐Kennedy, Stanley A. Kochanek et al.
The Fearful State: Power, People and Internal War in South Asia by S. Mahmud Ali (London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1993, pp.266, £32.95 hb, £13.95 pb). India: Facing the Twenty‐First Century by Barbara Crossette (Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993, pp. 154, £20). Islam and In...
W. G. Lambert, Chester G. Starr, William H. McNeill, Hugh McLeod et al.
PAUL-ALAIN BEAULIEU. The Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon 556–539 B.C. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 270. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by W.G. Lambert. M.A. DANDAMAEV. A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire, trans. W.J. Vogelsang. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1989. Pp. xv, 373...