Two-tier charging in Maputo Central Hospital: costs, revenues and effects on equity of access to hospital services.

BACKGROUND:
Special services within public hospitals are becoming increasingly common in low and middle income countries with the stated objective of providing higher comfort services to affluent customers and generating resources for under funded hospitals.
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“Representações de mulheres em idade fértil e profissionais de saúde sobre utilização de cuidados de saúde reprodutiva”

OBJECTIVE:
Ascertaining poor and not poor women’s representations about fecundity and verifying how this affectedreproductive health care use (maternal health care and family planning), as well ashealthcare professionals’representationsabout “poor” women-fecundity patternsand reproductive healthcare use.
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Continuity and change in human resources policies for health: lessons from Brazil

Authors: Calado RA, Alves-Pires C, Bahia MT
Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Continuity+and+change+in+human+resources+policies+for+health%3A+lessons+from+Brazil

BACKGROUND:
This paper reports on progress in implementing human resources for health (HRH) policies in Brazil, in the context of the implementation and expansion of the Unified Health System (Sistema Unico de Saúde – SUS).
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Chagas disease in European countries: the challenge of a surveillance system

Authors: Ready PD, Raquel H, Raskine L, Randrianarivelojosia M, Rath SL, Ranson H, Ravel C, Rath SL, Ravel C, Ranson H, Raquel H, Almeida AP, Raskine L, Ready PD
Link: https://apps.webofknowledge.com/full_record.do?product=UA&search_mode=GeneralSearch&qid=29&SID=P2WA5hwy5j35Sqjoq2z&page=1&doc=1

A study of aggregate data collected from the literature and official sources was undertaken to estimate expected and observed prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection, annual incidence of congenital transmission and rate of underdiagnosis of Chagas disease among Latin American migrants in the nine European countries with the highest prevalence of Chagas disease.
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Information Technology Adoption Models at Firm Level: Review of Literature.

Authors: Spinaci MI, Savona-Ventura C
Link: http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/53491774/information-technology-adoption-models-firm-level-review-literature

Today, information technology (IT) is universally regarded as an essential tool in enhancing the competitiveness of the economy of a country. There is consensus that IT has significant effects on the productivity of firms. These effects will only be realized if, and when, IT are widely spread and used.
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Two-tier charging in Maputo Central Hospital: costs, revenues and effects on equity of access to hospital services.

“Representações de mulheres em idade fértil e profissionais de saúde sobre utilização de cuidados de saúde reprodutiva”

Continuity and change in human resources policies for health: lessons from Brazil

Chagas disease in European countries: the challenge of a surveillance system

Information Technology Adoption Models at Firm Level: Review of Literature.

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