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The focus of this book is the Tanzanian Essential Health Interventions Project (TEHIP), a collaboration of IDRC and the Tanzanian Ministry of Health that has helped guide the reform of the health sector in Tanzania and has led to new tools and strategies for maximizing the health benefits of investing in health care. This book does not intend to provide a review of all the pertinent literature and resources for this subject, however this appendix offers a small selection of resources for further background information.

This book is also an integral part of IDRC's thematic Web dossier on the TEHIP experience: http://www.idrc.ca/tehip. The full text of the book is available online and leads the reader to other resources on the experience of TEHIP and its partners and collaborators, the tools and strategies arising from the program, and the larger health care issues facing sub-Saharan Africa. Those additional resources include a series of short videos, case studies, and a wide selection of documents. A number of more formal peer-reviewed publications are in the pipeline as of the publication date of this book. Links to these will be available on the Web site as they become available.

Cited references

Bobadilla, J.L.; Cowley, P.; Musgrove, P.; Saxenian, H. 1994. Design, content and financing of an essential national package of health services. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 72, 653­662. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/1994/Vol72-No4/bulletin_1994_72(4)_653-662.pdf 

Cassels, A.; Janovsky, K. 1995. Strengthening health management in districts and provinces. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. 1­73 pp. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/924154483X.pdf

Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. 2001. Macroeconomics and health: investing in health for economic development. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidcmh/CMHReport.pdf  

Conference Board of Canada. 2004. Understanding health care cost drivers and escalators. Conference Board of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

de Savigny, D.; Mayombana, C.; Mwageni, E.; Masanja, H.; Minhaj, A.; Mkilindi, Y.; Mbuya, C.; Kasale, H.; Reid, G. 2004. Care-seeking patterns for fatal malaria in Tanzania. Malaria Journal, 3, 27. http://www.malariajournal.com/content/3/1/27  

Iringa Primary Health Care Institute. 1997. Ten steps to a district health plan: a workbook for district health management teams (revised edition). Iringa Primary Health Care Institute, Iringa, Tanzania / Nijmegen Institute for International Health, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Kindig, D.A.; Stoddart, G. 2003. What is population health? American Journal of Public Health, 93, 380­383.

Kurowski, C.; Wyss, K.; Abdulla, S.; Yémadji, N.; Mills, A. 2003. Human resources for health: requirements and availability in the context of scaling-up priority interventions in low-income countries ­ case studies from Tanzania and Chad. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. HEFP working paper 01/04.

Lengeler, C.; Cattani, J.; de Savigny, D. 1996. Net gain: a new method for preventing malaria deaths. International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. /ev_en.php?ID=9338_201&ID2;=DO_TOPIC  

TEHIP (Tanzania Essential Health Interventions Project). 1998. TEHIP research: scope and approaches. TEHIP, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. /ev_en.php?ID=62098_201&ID2;=DO_TOPIC  

UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund). 1996. The state of the world's children. UNICEF, New York, NY, USA. http://www.unicef.org/sowc96/1980s.htm  

World Bank. 1993. World development report 1993: investing in health. World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.

WHO (World Health Organization). 2000. The World Health Report 2000. Health systems: improving performance. WHO, Geneva, Switzerland. pp. 1­206. http://www.who.int/whr2001/2001/archives/200/en/index.html  

WHO (World Health Organization) and UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund). 1978. Declaration of Alma-Ata. International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma-Ata, USSR, 6­12 September 1978. WHO, Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.who.int/hpr/NPH/docs/declaration_almaata.pdf  

Selected Web sites

The following organizations and initiatives are involved with health research and health systems development in Africa:

World Health Organization: http://www.who.int  

Health, Nutrition and Population (World Bank): http://www1.worldbank.org/hnp  

The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research: http://www.alliance-hpsr.org/jahia/Jahia  

The Alliance's search engine for health and policy systems research is an excellent source of African health information: http://white.collexis.net/collexis_evidencebase/www  

Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (WHO): http://www.who.int/macrohealth  

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: http://www.theglobalfund.org  

Roll Back Malaria (WHO): http://www.rbm.who.int  

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation:
http://www.gatesfoundation.org  

Rockefeller Foundation: http://www.rockfound.org  

The Wellcome Trust: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk  

United Nations Foundation: http://www.unfoundation.org  

Council for Health Research for Development: http://www.cohred.ch  

Global Forum for Health Research: http://www.globalforumhealth.org  

Governance, Equity, and Health (IDRC): http://www.idrc.ca/geh  

Demographic and Health Surveys: http://www.measuredhs.com  

INDEPTH (International Network of field sites with continuous Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health in developing countries): http://www.indepth-network.org  

International Clinical Epidemiology Network: http://www.inclen.org  

Further reading

Comprehensive identification and access to published materials dealing with many topics discussed in this book can be found by using the search engine available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed .

More information on the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is available at http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals . Information on MDGs as related to Tanzania is available in the Tanzania country report: http://www.undg.org/documents/2745-International_Millennium.pdf .

Parallel preparatory World Bank, WHO, and other documents appearing at the same time as WDR93 and of great influence, specifically for Africa, were the following:

• Bank. 1994. Better health in Africa: experience and lessons learned. World Bank, Washington, DC, USA. Development in Practice series.
• R.; Jamison, D.T., ed. 1991. Disease and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
• D.T., et al., ed. 1993. Disease control priorities in developing countries. Oxford Medical Publications, Oxford, UK.
• C.J.L.; Lopez. A.D. 1994. Global comparative assessments in the health sector: disease burden, expenditures and intervention packages. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

For information pertaining to the startup of TEHIP:

• J.; Law, M.; Gelmon, L; de Savigny, D. 1995. A new Canadian health care initiative in Tanzania. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 153, 1081­1085. An abstract of this article can be found at http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/153/8/1081 .
• World Bank; WHO. 1993. Future partnership for the acceleration of health development: report of a conference, 18­20 October 1993, Ottawa, Canada. IDRC, Ottawa, Canada. /ev_en.php?ID=64424_201&ID2;=DO_TOPIC  

For contemporary statistical information on Tanzania:

• official Government of Tanzania Web site, http://www.tanzania.go.tz , for links to statistical databases including the 2002 census and the household budget survey
• Muhimbili Health Exchange Forum: http://www.muhef.or.tz  
• Adult Morbidity and Mortality Project: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ammp  
• Tanzania Development Gateway: http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/285491/  

A wealth of information on the international applications of Demographic Surveillance Systems can be found at http://www.indepth-network.net . For more information:

• Network. 2002. Population and health in developing countries. Volume 1: Population, health, and survival at INDEPTH sites. IDRC, Ottawa, Canada. /ev_en.php?ID=9435_201&ID2;=DO_TOPIC  
• J. 2002. Vital statistics. IDRC Reports, Ottawa, Canada. /ev_en.php?ID=26044_201&ID2;=DO_TOPIC  
• E.; Masanja, H.; Juma, Z.; Momburi, D.; Mkilindi, Y.; Mbuya, C.; Kasale, H.; Reid, G.; de Savigny, D. 2004. Socio-economic status and health inequalities in rural Tanzania: evidence from the Rufiji Demographic Surveillance System. INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana. In press.

More information on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) can be found at http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/integr.htm and at http://www.who.int/imci-mce .

More information on malaria interventions is available at the Roll Back Malaria Web site: http://www.rbm.who.int .

Articles on the management and planning tools developed by TEHIP and offered to district health teams can be found in various issues of TEHIP News: /ev_en.php?ID=8331_201&ID2;=DO_TOPIC .

For more information related to the tools and priority setting:

• Savigny, D.; Kasale, H.; Mbuya, C.; Lusinde, R.; Munna, G.; Masanja, H.; Mgalula, L.; Reid, G. 2003. Choosing health interventions and setting priorities: a district level perspective. Medicus Mundi Schweiz. Netzwerk Gesundheit fur alle. Bulletin, 91, 25­30.
• Savigny, D.; Wijeyaratne, P., ed. 1995. GIS for health and the environment. IDRC, Ottawa, Canada. /ev_en.php?ID=9357_201&ID2;=DO_TOPIC

For general information on TEHIP and the various aspects of its program:

• 80 cents more. The Economist, 15 August 2002: a journalist's account of TEHIP's effect in Tanzania.  http://www.economist.com/World/Africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1280587

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