Background Community participation is a major principle of people centered health systems,
with considerable research highlighting its intrinsic value and strategic importance. Existing …

Background Dedicated and motivated health workers (HWs) play a major role in delivering
efficient and effective health services that improve patients' experience of health care …

Background It is increasingly apparent that access to healthcare without adequate quality of
care is insufficient to improve population health outcomes. We assess whether the most …

Importance In rural India, as in many developing countries, childhood mortality remains high
and the quality of health care available is low. Improving care in such settings, where most …

Background Mentoring programs for nurses already in the health workforce are growing in
importance. Yet, the settings, goals, scale, and key features of these programs are not widely …

Background District level health system governance is recognised as an important but
challenging element of health system development in low and middle-income countries …

Healthcare workers are an essential element in the functionality of the health system.
However, the health workforce impact on health systems tends to be overlooked. Countries …

We analyse the effect of competition on quality in hospital markets with regulated prices,
considering the effect of both introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and …

Africa's progress towards the health related Millennium Development Goals remains limited.
This can be partly explained by inadequate performance of health care providers. It is …

The war in Yemen, described as the world's 'worst humanitarian crisis,'has seen numerous
attacks against health care. While global attention to attacks on health workers has …