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Peru 2010 Country Fact Sheet

Authors: 
Future Generations
Date: 
May, 2010

This international country fact sheet will provide you with information on how Peru is "strengthening a national health system with communities."

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Future Generations Newsletter Autumn 2009

Authors: 
Future Generations
Publisher: 
Future Generations
Date: 
September, 2009

Future Generations Autumn 2009 newsletter features articles on:

  • Reducing child mortality in Afghanistan
  • Kitchen gardens raising women's empowerment in Northeast India
  • New Pendeba Society in Tibet, China
  • Connecting students through DimDim
  • Alumni News: Women's Photovoice
  • Kresge Planning Grant for Green Campus
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A Review of the Evidence: How Effective is Community-based Primary Health Care in Improving Child Health?

Authors: 
Henry Perry and Paul Freeman, Study Directors
Authors: 
Sundeep Gupta and Bahie Mary Rassekh, Study Coordinators
Publisher: 
International Health Section, American Public Health Association, Community-based Primary Health Working Group
Date: 
July, 2009
Link: 
http://www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/intlhealth

Excitement is rapidly growing concerning the potential for community-based primary health care (CBPHC) to accelerate progress in reducing the tragedy of millions of children dying world-wide each year from readily preventable or treatable conditions. Consequently, a review of the evidence concerning the effectiveness of community-based approaches is timely.

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Graduate School Newsletter, March 2009

Publisher: 
Future Generations Graduate School
Date: 
March, 2009

Included in this newsletter:

  • Recruiting for Class IV, September 2009
  • New Dean Highlights Program Distinctions
  • Master's Student Receives Davis Projects for Peace Award
  • Notes from the Peru Residential
  • Meet Student Tshering Lham from Bhutan
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Case Study - CLAS Peru

Authors: 
Laura Altobelli
Date: 
August, 2008

Altobelli, Laura C  (2008) Case Study of CLAS in Peru: Opportunity and Empowerment for Health Equity.   Prepared for Case Studies of Programmes Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Equity organized by the Priority Public Health Conditions - Knowledge Network (PPHC-KN) of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, with support from the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, WHO.  

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Searchers Who Are Improving Health in the Midst of Poverty

Authors: 
Henry Perry
Date: 
August, 2006

Why has the $2.3 trillion dollars spent by the West over the past four decades not had more of an impact in promoting health and decreasing poverty?

The economist William Easterly addresses this issue in his provocative new book, The White Man's Burden. His view is that we need to abandon the grandiose plans of the Planners and that we begin to develop new and effective ways for supporting those people he calls Searchers -- those who are working at the grassroots level and who are experimenting and learning by trial and error to solve local problems of poverty and health.

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Cost-Efficiency of CLAS Associations for Primary Health Care in Peru

Authors: 
Altobelli, Laura C.
Authors: 
Utrilla, Ana Sovero
Date: 
December, 2004

To provide further empirical evidence of PAC’s and CLAS’s management model contribution to the health sector, a study compared the two systems from the financing and service provision viewpoints and thus evaluate the establishments’ efficiency at the first level of health care. The study was designed and carried out by Future Generations Peru with financial support from Mulago foundation and DFID/British Council.

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The Politics of Health Sector Reform in Peru

Authors: 
Ewig, Christina
Publisher: 
Woodrow Wilson Center Workshops on the Politics of Education and Health Reforms
Date: 
April, 2002

Health sector reforms in Peru, despite nearly a decade of reform efforts, are best described as piecemeal. The reform project itself lacked a comprehensive vision, and the resulting policies often either conflicted with each other, or with the stated overall goals of health sector reform: “a reform with equity, efficiency and quality”. Major health indicators, moreover, show improvement in health status, but these improvements are not substantially different from improvements in non-reform, and even crisis periods of the health sector.

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Just and Lasting Change

Authors: 
Taylor, Daniel
Authors: 
Taylor, Carl E.
Publisher: 
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Date: 
January, 2002
ISBN: 
0-8018-6825-4

Just and Lasting Change presents how to transform communities rapidly
and in locally appropriate ways. Daniel Taylor-Ide and Carl Taylor have
been present at key events and worked with key thinkers in dealing with
the large forces of inequity, environmental change, and globalization.
The approach they have synthesized builds on what has worked over the
last century--and can now be implemented rapidly and cost-effectively
in many parts of the world. It relies on a three-way partnership of

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Memorandum on Findings and Recommendations for Peru's National System of Community Co-Managed Primary Health

Authors: 
Mahler, Halfdan
Authors: 
Taylor, Carl
Authors: 
Taylor-Ide, Daniel
Authors: 
Apang, Omak
Publisher: 
World Health Organization
Date: 
September, 2001

Report to the World Health Organization on the state of Peru's Shared Administration Program, CLAS.

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