Originally presented as the author's thesis, Groningen, 1978. / Includes bibliographical references.

Originally presented as the author's thesis, Groningen, 1978. / Includes bibliographical references.

Universal Health Care Coverage is one important policy recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO) to governments in both developed and developing countries (WHO, 1999, 2000). Thailand implemented a policy of universal coverage of health care to enhance its health care coverage (UC) scheme. It is therefore difficult to evaluate policy effectiveness without specified criteria for evaluating the framework through which one could apply policy effectiveness without specified criteria for evaluating the framework through which one could apply policy evaluation tools. The first paper of this three paper series identified potential evaluation criteria for the universal health care coverage program by analysing experiences of developed countries in achieving universal health care coverage and the reform programs they implemented. The second paper identified and examined the criteria for evaluation of the Universal Health Care Coverage scheme in Thailand which reported on qualitative data gathered by the researcher through in-depth interviews with six top executives of private hospitals in Thailand. / These findings from the top executives of private hospitals have been instrumental in exploring the impacts to health providers, the health care practice and public policy for the UC implementation which explored by using different views of criteria for evaluating the UC program from the experience of developed countries. The final paper discusses their connection to theory and explores the views of health providers about which criteria to include, as well as the relationship between intermediate and core criteria, particularly with regard to being strategic in selecting performance problems for priority attention. / The complete series of research papers should prove to be a valuable reference resource and hopefully a guiding compass in assisting Thailand in the continuing implementation and reform of the Universal Health Care Coverage plan. / Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2007.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has been implementing the Healthy Marketplace initiative in the market setting of developing countries since 1997. This initiative forms part of the Healthy Cities strategy and is reinforced through the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. The WHO Food Safety Division has indicated that every city in the WHO Healthy City program will eventually also have a Healthy Marketplace program. This is despite the absence of any published guidelines for facilitating program implementation, a clearly articulated Healthy Marketplace concept, and a dearth of meaningful program evaluations. This thesis set out to explore the views and experiences of in-country stakeholders involved in a Vietnamese Healthy Marketplace program. It also set out to examine the roles and perceptions of experts engaged in the design and delivery of programs across the developing world. Through an iterative and post-positivist research methodology, this inquiry collected and analysed data from five key sources: documents, detailed questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and observations and reflections. The findings revealed that various and even conflicting program concepts and aims existed across and within groups, having significant implications for practice. The settings approach was not the dominant approach to health promotion in the Vietnamese market, but rather a 'top-down' topic-based approach dominated as the mechanism for program delivery. Consequently, numerous challenges have been identified for Healthy Marketplace policy and practice. The challenges are prefaced on the adoption of a settings approach, and include the need for : market communities to set their own agendas; the program target audience to be redefined; increased power sharing across stakeholders; the re-education of professionals; the sharing of knowledge; and the adequate resourcing of Healthy Marketplace programs / Master of Science (Hons)

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 1952. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 189-202).

Thesis (M.A.)--Villanova University, 2006. / Political Science Dept. Includes bibliographic references.

Proefschrift Universiteit Maastricht. / Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Engels.

The goal of this thesis is to document and explain the evolution and development of international health collaboration. Utilizing international relations theory, the initial development of the health regulatory regime is traced through the early sanitary conferences. The establishment of international health organizations is then documented, along with the transformation this entailed in international health collaboration. The resulting effect the institutionalization of the international health regime had upon international health collaboration is finally presented. It is determined that states initial interest in international health collaboration grew out of a concern for reducing the impediments to international trade and commerce that quarantine measures imposed. States were, at first, reluctant to collaborate, but as scientific knowledge increased, international cooperation in this area expanded. Realizing the benefits of joint technical cooperation, states formed international organizations. The special characteristics of international health under the guiding influence of medical specialists were to cause an evolution within this regime. Collaboration in this area has greatly increased. The primary concern of the international health regime is no longer the containment of pestilent diseases without significant interference to international commerce. This regime is now concerned with improving the level of health care to all states, regardless of the effects this might have on the interests of the developed states. Technical cooperation and aid to developing countries is now the central focus of the World Health Organization. This evolution has not occurred without some degree of conflict, however, as it is the developing states and the medical elites of the organization have forced the evolution of the previous norms of this regime. The developing states have a clear interest in securing assistance in developing their health infrastructures, and the elites of the WHO are committed by nature of their scientific training to work towards this ideal. The developed states are not in favour of this change as it threatens their interests and power within this regime. Although it initially appeared that collaboration in this area would be relatively easy to secure as an improvement in health would be to every state's benefit, this has not always been the case. International relations theory is utilized in this thesis to explain the origins, the obstacles, and the evolution that has occurred within this regime. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate

Drawing on developments in the public health field, this exploratory study applies the ideas of Health Promotion (HP) to the University of Cape Town (UCT). It defines UCT as a setting within which HP can and should take place. Following the World Health Organisation (WHO), health is seen as encompassing physical, mental, social, and other environmental factors (WHO, 1978). Sociological perspectives that acknowledge the relationship between social action/behaviour and the social context, hence the relationship between students' wellbeing and the UCT environment are employed. Data and information for this study were collected through focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, participant observation, and a sample of information gathered by first year sociology students. The fear of failure, housing problems, limited social integration, and availability of cigarettes and junk food on campus were found to be some of the factors that influence and constrain students' weIIbeing. It was also found wellbeing is not an explicit consideration in the university plans and policies, even though implicitly these are meant to enhance wellbeing. Strategies to promote health in UCT need to be guided by a commitment to wellbeing in the university's policies. This thesis recommends that the university be required to pass a 'wellbeing test'.