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The rhetoric of sector-wide approaches for health development
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This paper examines the proposal of SWAps as rhetoric, and seeks to understand how that rhetoric functions, despite the variable application of its constituent elements and the range of contexts in which it operates.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2002-06-01. It has received 58 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health policy & Health promotion.read more
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"Rapid-impact interventions": how a policy of integrated control for Africa's neglected tropical diseases could benefit the poor.
TL;DR: Controlling seven tropical infections in Africa would cost just 40 cents per person per year, and would permanently benefit hundreds of millions of people.
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The terrain of health policy analysis in low and middle income countries: a review of published literature 1994-2007
Lucy Gilson,Nika Raphaely +1 more
TL;DR: Five key actions needed to strengthen the field of health policy analysis within LMICs are outlined, including capacity development and efforts to generate systematic and coherent bodies of work underpinned by both the intent to undertake rigorous analytical work and concern to support policy change.
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Public participation in regional health policy: a theoretical framework
Wilfreda E. Thurston,Gail MacKean,Ardene Robinson Vollman,Ann Casebeer,Myron Weber,Bretta Maloff,Judy Bader +6 more
TL;DR: The theoretical framework developed is described, with an emphasis on explaining the following major components of the framework: public participation initiatives as a process; policy making processes with a health region; social context as symbolic and political institutions; policy communities; and health of the population as the ultimate outcome of public participation.
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NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world: perspectives from Ghana:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the factors that influence and constrain NGO contributions to poverty reduction in a globalizing world, focusing on their role as transmitters of grounded knowledge.
The aid effectiveness agenda: Bringing discipline to diversity in global health?
Rebecca Dodd,Peter S. Hill +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors chart the practical and conceptual evolution of approaches to aid effectiveness in the health sector, from their intra-sectoral origins to current efforts which seek to bridge global and country policy agendas and engage new actors.
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The sublime object of ideology
TL;DR: The Sublime Object of Ideology as mentioned in this paper explores the political significance of these fantasies of control, linking key psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts to social phenomena such as totalitarianism and racism.
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The world health report 2000 - Health systems: improving performance
Uwe E. Reinhardt,Tsung-mei Cheng +1 more
TL;DR: The chief virtue of the WHO report lies in the challenges it poses for its critics within the health services research community, and it is fair to query whether, on balance, so precarious an undertaking does more good than harm.
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Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology
TL;DR: Arguing and thinking as mentioned in this paper is an entertaining and scholarly exposition of ideas of rhetoric viewed as social psychological theories, from Classical times to the nineteenth century. But it is self-confessedly unorthodox.
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The Rhetorical Situation
TL;DR: The rhetorical situation is the context in which speakers or writers create rhetorical discourse as mentioned in this paper, which is not a standard term in the vocabulary of rhetorical theory, and therefore it is difficult to define it.
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Selective primary health care. An interim strategy for disease control in developing countries.
TL;DR: A program of selective primary health care is compared with other approaches and suggested as the most cost-effective form of medical intervention in the least developed countries.
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