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Tag - Health

Village cadres at a COVID checkpoint in Nancun village, Hebei Province, China, January 2020

China’s COVID-19 response: any scope for local policy discretion?

by Adam Tyson, Hong Gao and Guangxin Cheng
February 23, 2022
The Samoa women's health podcast cover image (KTF Faletoese)

Podcasting in the Pacific: tips from experience

by Ramona Boodoosingh, Jess O’Callaghan, Falelua Maua, Saunima'a Ma Fulu-Aiolupotea, Filipina Amosa Lei-Sam, Sione Pifeleti and Mayday Fanueli
February 22, 2022
Indonesia's JKN health scheme (Alexandra Stanescue-HP+-Flickr)

How wrong can a policy go? Indonesia’s plan to fund health costs via tobacco taxes

by Elisabeth Kramer and Abdillah Ahsan
December 15, 2021
Preparing sago in Western Province, PNG (Mikaela Seymour)

Surge in sago sickness in PNG

by Mikaela Seymour
December 7, 2021
Health institution in Bangladesh (Conor Ashleigh-DFAT-Flickr)

Rich-country health care systems: global lessons

by Ian Anderson
August 31, 2021

Papua New Guinea’s primary health care system: Views from the frontline

by Colin Wiltshire, Amanda H. A. Watson, Denise Lokinap and Tatia Currie
Dec, 2020

PNG: Devpolicy Blogs in 2018-19

by Devpolicy Blog Editor
Aug, 2019

Palliative care in the Pacific: Initial research

by Joanna Spratt
Mar, 2019

A lost decade? Service delivery and reforms in Papua New Guinea 2002-2012

by Stephen Howes, Andrew Anton Mako, Anthony Swan, Grant Walton, Thomas Webster and Colin Wiltshire
Oct, 2014

Financing PNG’s free primary health care policy: User fees, funding and performance

by Colin Wiltshire and Andrew Mako
Jun, 2014
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