http://oba-uganda.net trials and successes of contracted patient care in uganda Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:04:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A summary of the voucher panel at Global Health Council's annual meeting in DC May 27th. Cross posted from Jaspal's original post on Global Health Ideas... As with the last post, I’m copying the description of the session I just attended - Vouchers for Health (Session C3) - from the conference website: Presenters ... http://oba-uganda.net/global-health-council-ghc36-vouchers-work-but-there-will-be-challenges/ Update from a blog that I occasionally write for and follow often... The Technology, Health and Development blog (THD Blog) formerly hosted at http://thdblog.wordpress.com has moved and changed names to this current site - Global Health Ideas (http://globalhealthideas.org). Partly because of increased attention and scope we decided it was time for ... http://oba-uganda.net/new-global-health-blog/ The online chat last week (full transcript .txt) hosted by Abt Associates covered a wide range of topics in OBA: utilization, fraud control, quality assurance, targeting, demand versus supply side programming, clinic management of medical supplies, service substitution, patient empowerment, clinic accreditation, transportation (and rural versus urban divide), staff ... http://oba-uganda.net/chat-about-utilization/ On March 19th I will be participating in an online conversation about output-based aid hosted by Abt Associates on the PSP-One Project. Output-based aid (OBA) financially empowers patients to make choices about where they receive their healthcare and incentivizes providers to deliver high quality services. The management of OBA systems ... http://oba-uganda.net/join-us-online-chat-oba-and-vouchers-march-19th/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="First HealthyBaby birth"][/caption] The first delivery on the new HealthyBaby vouchers took place the morning of February 28th (see Melissa's post).The delivery took place at Angella's Domicillary in Rubindi trading center. Mother and baby are both doing well. The program was launched in September in Mbarara and then ... http://oba-uganda.net/the-first-healthybaby-birth-in-uganda-oba/ The Kenya and Uganda OBA programs were both financed by the German KfW Development Bank and launched in mid-2006.  Recently a film was made about the Kenyan "voucher babies" highlighting one expectant mother in the Kenya program. Nov 12 update:  I wanted to post this newsletter (KenPop vol 2 issue 3, ... http://oba-uganda.net/short-film-kenya-oba-vouchers-for-maternal-deliveries/ The Uganda program continues to grow and learn.  Berkeley graduate students Melissa Ho and Matthew Hamilton presented at the recent annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA) in San Diego.  Melissa is developing an early version of a mobile medical claims management system for the Uganda OBA program.  ... http://oba-uganda.net/recent-presentations-at-apha-conference/ The next phase of output-based aid in Uganda has begun to provide subsidized delivery care for 90,000 poor women in the west of the country.  On behalf of the Ministry of Health, Marie Stopes has contracted thirteen facilities with another 70 potential facilities to join in the next nine months.  ... http://oba-uganda.net/healthybaby-delivery-voucher-launch/ A friend recently sent a link to this Berkeley database of GIS shapefiles for roughly 245 countries, islands, and principal administrative areas. Themes include roads, railways, inland water, elevation, population, and administrative areas.  If you've ever hunted for hard to find shapefiles, bookmark the site. We have been ... http://oba-uganda.net/gis-database-has-shapefiles-for-roads-administrative-areas-waterways-other-layers/ The successful initial public offering of shares in the 25% government owned Safaricom is an eye-catching story. Asking whether similar good news in economic and political developments across the continent are a flash in the pan or signs of larger trend, the Boston Review features Berkeley's Ted Miguel ("Is ... http://oba-uganda.net/ipo-kenya-safaricom-shares-up-60-in-first-day/