Background Over the last decade, Ethiopia has made impressive national improvements in health outcomes, including reductions in maternal, neonatal, infant, and child mortality attributed in large part to their Health Extension Program (HEP). As this program continues to evolve and improve, understanding the unit cost of health extension worker (HEW) services is fundamental to planning for futur...

In the aftermath of the Ebola crisis and with renewed attention to resilient health systems, the process of improving approaches of global health actors to health systems strengthening is of great relevance. Despite the increased amount of attention paid to health systems strengthening, there is no standard definition of this concept among global health actors. Germany is no exception. Though t...

Background and Aim:  The health financing system is the process of collecting, pooling and managing financial resources to purchase health services. Sustainable financing of the Iranian health system is crucial for achieving universal health coverage. The purpose of this study was to identify strategies for sustainable financing of the Iranian health system. Materials and Methods:  This study ...

‘Quality of care’ was the central conceptual thread in the concept of reproductive health. This was in clear deviation from the previous concepts that were target oriented and were engrained in the health programmes known by various names in the previous era: like Safe mother hood programme, or Child Survival and Safe Motherhood programme etc. This conceptual change had occurred due to understa...

BACKGROUND Good quality and timely data from health information systems are the foundation of all health systems. However, too often data sit in reports, on shelves or in databases and are not sufficiently utilised in policy and program development, improvement, strategic planning and advocacy. Without specific interventions aimed at improving the use of data produced by information systems, he...

‘Quality of care’ was the central conceptual thread in the concept of reproductive health. This was in clear deviation from the previous concepts that were target oriented and were engrained in the health programmes known by various names in the previous era: like Safe mother hood programme, or Child Survival and Safe Motherhood programme etc. This conceptual change had occurred due to understa...

We prove a version of the quantum de Finetti theorem: permutation-invariant quantum states are well approximated as a probabilistic mixture of multifold product states. The approximation is measured by distinguishability under measurements that are implementable by fully-one-way local operations and classical communication (LOCC). Our result strengthens Brandão and Harrow's de Finetti theorem w...