Building Informed Trust: Injection Practices in Cambodia

Dr Sachiko Ozawa from JHSPH presents recent findings from a study on trust in health systems and injection rates in Cambodia to the Health System Reform in Asia conference in Hong Kong in December 2012. She notes that the average Cambodian receives six injections/year, and that trained medical practitioners often feel pressure to give shots and IVs as patients will often turn to informal providers if they don't.

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Regulatory challenges associated with the rapid spread of health markets

Dr Barun Kanjilal of IIHMR gives an overview of the regulatory challenges associated with the rapid spread of health markets in India to the Health System Reform in Asia conference held in Hong Kong in early December 2011. He notes in particular the important role that informal providers have played in delivering health services in the wake of government reforms.

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Understanding informal markets: The roles and perspectives of RMPs in West Bengal and Karnataka, India

Dr Asha George of JHSPH presents work on the role of informal health care providers in India at the Health System Reform in Asia conference held in December 2011 in Hong Kong. She compares West Bengal and Karnataka -- two states with very different health profiles -- providing both qualitative and quantitative insights into how and why the poor use poorly trained rural medical practitioners as their first port of call when accessing health services.

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Building institutions for health and health systems in contexts of rapid change

Dr Gerald Bloom from IDS presents in a plenary session at the Health Systems Reform in Asia conference in Hong Kong on 11 December 2011. He focuses on the need to consider the complex mixed health systems when setting an evaluation research agenda.

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Association between health workforce capacity and quality of care for children under five in Afghanistan

This presentation by Dr Anbrasi Edward at the 28th ISQua conference in Hong Kong was informed by a study to determine the association between health workforce capacity and quality of care in primary care facilities providing a basic package of health services (BPHS) in Afghanistan.

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