Executive summary The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the need for well-functioning
primary health care (PHC) into sharp focus. PHC is the best platform for providing basic …

Decision making techniques have been widely used in healthcare and medical industry.
This study systematically reviews the conventional and fuzzy decision-making techniques …

Background. Although there is a large literature examining the relationship between a wide
range of political economy exposures and health outcomes, the extent to which the different …

The private for-profit sector's prominence in health-care delivery, and concern about its
failures to deliver social benefit, has driven a search for interventions to improve the sector's …

Abstract Background Pay for Performance (P4P) mechanisms to health facilities and
providers are currently being tested in several low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) to …

Background Cash transfers and vouchers are forms of 'demand-side financing'that have
been widely used to promote maternal and newborn health in low-and middle-income …

Objective To assess cash transfer interventions for improving treatment outcomes of active
pulmonary tuberculosis in low-and middle-income countries. Methods We searched …

Background Cash transfer interventions are forms of social protection based on the
provision of cash to vulnerable households with the aim of reduce risk, vulnerability, chronic …

Background Despite the efforts of the National Tuberculosis Programme, TB cure rates in
Brazil are sub-optimal. The End TB Strategy for post-2015 identifies conditional cash transfer …

Over the past 3 decades, public health professionals have worked to stem the rising
childhood obesity epidemic. Despite the field's best efforts, no progress has been made in …