Brazilian economy nowadays shows that what is most important is for every sector to carefully plan, instead of merely spending finite financial resources. Thus, the adequate application of each health budget item has been one of the main goals of health planners and managers. This study aims to present a methodology for the appropriation of production costs in health care to low-risk pregnant w...

This paper discusses the national planning of health policy between 2003 and 2010, in the light of the development of state planning in Brazil and Lula's administration. Firstly an historical overview is presented of the key moments for national planning, regarding its effects on health care. The governmental context is then described with a review of the strategies and instruments in health pl...

88 An unprecedented wave of major, market-based reforms is weeping through health systems across high-income economies. n Greece and Portugal, the reforms which feature cost-cutting and ost-shifting measures as well as structural changes, are knock-on ffects of austerity measures put in place resulting from the global nancial crisis of 2007–2008, and the subsequent 2008–2012 global ecession. In...

BACKGROUND While evaluation is, in theory, a component of training programmes in health planning, training needs in this area remain significant. Improving health systems necessarily calls for having more professionals who are skilled in evaluation. Thus, the Université de Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and the Université de Montréal (Canada) have partnered to establish, in Burkina Faso, a master's...

Since 2004 the Howard Coalition government has implemented a new policy framework and administrative arrangements as part of its program of reform in Indigenous affairs. In this paper I will describe both the parameters of this reform program and review the processes established to support the implementation of national Indigenous health strategy. In particular, I will consider both the shift f...

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BACKGROUND Since 1994 formal health plans have been used for coordination of health care services between the regional and local level in Denmark. From 2007 a substantial reform has changed the administrative boundaries of the system and a new tool for coordination has been introduced. PURPOSE To assess the use of the pre-reform health plans as a tool for strengthening coordination, quality a...

This Issue Brief provides summary data on the insured and uninsured populations in the nation and in each state. It discusses the characteristics most closely related to an individual's health insurance status. Based on EBRI estimates from the March 1999 Current Population Survey (CPS), it represents 1998 data--the most recent data available. In 1998, 194.7 million nonelderly Americans--81.6 pe...