http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-7888-5

The first chapters of the book are comprehensive and systematic reviews of the literature that examine important sets of strategies for improving health services through health services strengthening strategies and approaches to implementation (chapter 1); strengthening health services organizations (chapter 2); improving performance of individual health care providers (chapter 3); and empowerment of communities (chapter 4).The book also pulls together years of international data and applies novel analytical approaches to examine how changes in the coverage of different health services affect each other on a national level (chapter 5).Chapter 6 outlines a way of thinking of the institutional factors that influence the delivery of health services, which should be helpful for analysts, managers, and policy makers.In chapter 8, the book describes how strategies were developed and implemented in the context of seven country case studies