Both Senegal and Ethiopia have recently undertaken changes in the political and financial administration of government services, decentralizing decisionmaking power to local levels. In Senegal, decentralization of health service planning and implementation to the district level poses both challenges and opportunities to the financing, treatment, and prevention of HIV. The positive consequences ...

In 1990, Great Britain enacted the National Health Service and Community Care Act to reduce unnecessary institutionalization, improve coordination of community-based long-term care, and stimulate private service provision. An overview of four major principles of the legislation is provided: the elevation of the assessor/care manager role, the emphasis on inter-agency collaboration across the he...

Services for people with Intellectual Disability (ID) and coexisting mental health problems remain undeveloped; research into their effectiveness has been lacking. Three linked recent studies in the UK have provided evidence on essential service provision from staff, service users and carers. Interfaces with mainstream mental health services were seen as problematic: the area of crisis response...

Relaxing net neutrality in the form of introducing termination fees and its welfare effects are considered a model imperfect complements. The equilibrium game between internet service provider (ISP) content (CP) yields welfare-maximizing that depend on relative size ISP’s CP’s own-price cross-price effects. Only when own price effect is relatively high compared to CP’s, along with cross effects...

Child health care factors such as medical treatment of sick children have direct and indirect effect on childhood mortality. Through international cooperation, a number of countries including Kenya have gathered information on provision of child health services at facility level from periodic Service Provision Assessment (SPA) surveys. Kenya has also gathered information on medical treatment of...