Summer weight gain and fitness loss: causes and potential solutions

RG Weaver, MW Beets, K Brazendale… - American Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Children's moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on weekdays versus weekend days: a multi-country analysis

K Brazendale, MW Beets, B Armstrong… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose The Structured Days Hypothesis (SDH) posits that children's behaviors
associated with obesity–such as physical activity–are more favorable on days that contain …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of Nepal's free delivery care policies in improving utilisation of maternal health services

H Bhatt, S Tiwari, T Ensor, DR Ghimire… - International journal of …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Nepal has made remarkable improvements in maternal health outcomes. The
implementation of demand and supply side strategies have often been attributed with the …

Implementation and effectiveness of free health insurance for the poor pregnant women in Tanzania: A mixed methods evaluation

A Kuwawenaruwa, K Ramsey, P Binyaruka… - Social Science & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Demand side financing strategies have been a popular means of increasing coverage and
availability of effective maternal and child health services in low and middle income …

Conditional cash transfers to improve use of health facilities by mothers and newborns in conflict affected countries, a prospective population based intervention study …

KM Edmond, AI Foshanji, M Naziri… - BMC Pregnancy and …, 2019 - Springer
Background The effects of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs on maternal and child
health (MCH) service use in conflicted affected countries such as Afghanistan are not …

An evaluation of universal vouchers as a demand-side subsidy to change primary care utilization: A retrospective analysis of longitudinal services utilisation and …

EK Yeoh, CHK Yam, KC Chong, TY Chow, VLH Fung… - Health Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
To incentivize private primary care utilization and reduce reliance on public healthcare
services, Elderly Healthcare Voucher Scheme has been implemented to provide a voucher …

Was the maternal health cash transfer programme in Nigeria sustainable and cost-effective?

O Onwujekwe, T Ensor, P Ogbozor, C Okeke… - Frontiers in public …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P),
Maternal and Child Health (MCH) was introduced by the Nigerian government to increase …

Utilization of the state led public private partnership program “Chiranjeevi Yojana” to promote facility births in Gujarat, India: a cross sectional community based study

S Yasobant, KS Vora, HD Shewade… - BMC Health Services …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background “Chiranjeevi Yojana (CY)”, a state-led large-scale demand-side
financing scheme (DSF) under public-private partnership to increase institutional delivery …

Implementing demand side targeting mechanisms for maternal and child health-experiences from national health insurance fund program in Rungwe District …

A Kuwawenaruwa, G Mtei, J Baraka, K Tani - Globalization and health, 2016 - Springer
Background Low and middle income countries have adopted targeting mechanisms as a
means of increasing program efficiency in reaching marginalized people in the community …

Payment mechanism for institutional births in Nepal

A Kc, M Målqvist, A Bhandari, R Gurung… - Archives of Public …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background Since the Millennium Development Goal era, there have been several
efforts to increase institutional births using demand side financing. Since 2005, Government …