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Health service planning contributes to policy dialogue around strengthening district health systems: an example from DR Congo 2008-2013

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, October 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (76th percentile)

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Title
Health service planning contributes to policy dialogue around strengthening district health systems: an example from DR Congo 2008-2013
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, October 2014
DOI 10.1186/s12913-014-0522-4
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Authors

Dheepa Rajan, Hyppolite Kalambay, Mathias Mossoko, Dieudonné Kwete, Joseph Bulakali, Jean-Pierre Lokonga, Denis Porignon, Gerard Schmets

Abstract

This case study from DR Congo demonstrates how rational operational planning based on a health systems strengthening strategy (HSSS) can contribute to policy dialogue over several years. It explores the operationalization of a national strategy at district level by elucidating a normative model district resource plan which details the resources and costs of providing an essential health services package at district level. This paper then points to concrete examples of how the results of this exercise were used for Ministry of Health (MoH) decision-making over a time period of 5 years.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 64 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 21%
Student > Bachelor 8 12%
Student > Postgraduate 8 12%
Researcher 8 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 12%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 13 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 33%
Social Sciences 7 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 5%
Psychology 3 5%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 16 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 January 2023.
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#4,367,555
of 23,920,246 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#2,038
of 8,000 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#48,704
of 263,662 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#41
of 169 outputs
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