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• New book: Primary healthcare spending, striving for equity under fiscal federalism

  Dr Okore Okorafor (former Researcher/Lecturer at the HEU) has published a book titled Primary Healthcare Spending: Striving for equity under fiscal federalism. (UCT Press, April 2010). The books forms part of a wider project he worked on during his stay at the HEU. 
  This book explores the implications of a wide range of intergovernmental fiscal arrangements found [...]

  Monday, August 23rd, 2010

• HEU diploma student contact week

  Contact week for the Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics programme ran from 16 to 20 August 2010 at the Health Economics Unit. Participants joined the HEU for a week of modules, assignments and group work on topics such as resource allocation and equity; cost effectiveness analysis and decision-making in economic evaluation.
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  Friday, August 20th, 2010

• New information sheets on health care financing (SA, Ghana, Tanzania)

  The SHIELD (Strategies for Health Insurance for Equity in Less Developed Countries) project has produced a set of information sheets. SHIELD aims to critically evaluate existing inequities in health systems and to examine the extent to which insurance (mechanisms to provide financial protection) can address these inequities in Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania.
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  Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

• New journal articles

  MASIYE, F., CHITAH, B. M. & MCINTYRE, D. (2010) From targeted exemptions to user fee abolition in health care: Experience from rural Zambia. Social Science & Medicine, 71, 743-750.
  MCINTYRE, D. & ATAGUBA, J. E. (2010) How to do (or not to do) . . . a benefit incidence analysis. Health Policy and Planning Advance, Published [...]

  Friday, August 13th, 2010

• AIDS 2010 conference

  The AIDS 2010 conference took place in Vienna Austria from 18 to 23 July 2010 (http://www.aids2010.org/). The HEU co-authored a poster and presentation for the conference:

  SCHNEIDER, H., MOSHABELA, M., BLAAUW, D., BÄRNIGHAUSEN, T., CHIMBINDI, N. & CLEARY, S. (2010) Urban-Rural Inequalities in Access to ART: Results from Facility-based Surveys in South Africa (poster presentation). XVIII [...]

  Friday, August 13th, 2010

• HEPNet Conference 2010, Call for Abstracts

  With only five years left to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, HEPNet (the Health Economics & Policy Network in Africa) invites members to submit abstracts for a workshop that pays specific attention to major communicable and non-communicable diseases in Africa. The workshop will take place from 29th November to 1st December 2010 at [...]

  Friday, August 13th, 2010

• PhD candidate wins best publication award

  Dr Rory Leisegang (PhD candidate at the HEU) received the Best Publication Award from the Faculty of Health Sciences at UCT on 26 July 2010. His work is being co-supervised by HEU Director, Dr Susan Cleary (with Prof Gary Maartens).
  The award is for an article published in PLoS Medicine titled ‘early and late direct costs [...]

  Thursday, August 5th, 2010

• Graça Machel Scholarship opportunity (for women)

  If you are interested in studying the HEU Masters in Public Health (specialising in Health Economics) programme, please be aware of the scholarship opportunity below (which is available for women only). Click here to find out more about the HEU Masters programme.
  Canon Collins Trust currently manage a scholarship programme on behalf of Mrs Graça Machel.  [...]

  Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

• AfHEA 2011

  We call on all African health economists and health policy analysts, those working in Africa or on research of relevance to Africa to submit abstracts for the Second Conference of the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA), which will be held in Dakar, Senegal from 15th to 19th March 2011. The overall theme of [...]

  Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

• New journal articles

  The Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems (CREHS) has contributed to the latest BMC Health Services Research journal (Supplement 1), titled: ‘Scaling-up health services in low- and middle-income settings’. CREHS (http://www.crehs.lshtm.ac.uk) is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) for the benefit of developing countries.
  Articles written for this supplement by the HEU [...]

  Monday, July 12th, 2010