rehabilitating local health services in the aftermath of conflict and war
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
University of York
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2005
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
University of York
امتياز متن
2005
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This thesis addresses the chronic failure of health service provision in conflict-affected developing countries, with specific reference to Somalia. It reviews the main arguments on how these services should be sustained: on the one hand, that these countries lack the resources to provide essential services and that the solution is through vastly increased financial assistance, and the opposing view that aid has consistently failed to produce improvements in service provision and the solution is for health services to become 'self-financing' through the imposition of user-fees. The thesis examines the effectiveness of cost recovery approaches employed by governments particularly in the context of structural adjustment and analyses their impact on the health and well-being of people in African countries in terms of reduced access to health services, indebtedness and increased morbidity. The thesis develops an alternative model for sustaining health services supported by the National Red Crescent Society in Somalia, which has been field tested in the Puntland region of Somalia. The new model is based on local empowerment to participate in the management of the community health service, and adopts financing modalities based on local coping capacities, seasonal income flows and user involvement in decision making about priority services and treatments, and sustaining the service. By empowering people to identify the broader causes of ill-health and to address these causes within the terms of the social and political context that determines their health status, the approach goes beyond dealing with the immediate causes of their illness, and supports collective mobilization to address deeper structural causes of sickness and ill-health.
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )