tailieunhanh - From Microfinance to Macro Change: Integrating Health Education and Microfinance to Empower Women and Reduce Poverty

Managed care plans' growing interest in practice guidelines is driven by their need to control costs, ensure consistency of care, and demonstrate improved performance. By using practice guidelines, plans are making a conscious decision about the care they intend to provide, reflecting the trade-off between costs and benefits. When published guidelines differ from a plan's clinical and financial objectives, they are typically customized with the active participation of the network physicians. Since published guidelines can be inconsistent, outdated, or too complex, local adaptation may be useful. Yet some changes may compromise the quality of patient care | MICROCREDIT si Á IM ị CAMPAIGN Microcredit Summit Campaign 440 1st Street NW Suite 460 Washington DC 20001 202-637-9600 Microcredit is a critical anti-poverty tool and a wise investment in human capital. Now that the nations of the world have committed themselves to reduce by half by the year 2015 the number of people living on less than 1 a day we must look even more seriously at the pivotal role that sustainable microfinance can play and is playing in reaching this Millennium Development Goal. Kofi Annan United Nations Secretary General From Microfinance to Macro Change Integrating Health Education and Microfinance to Empower Women and Reduce Poverty United Nations Population Fund 220 East 42nd Street New York NY 10017 . MICROCREDIT I CAMPAIGN í Ị From Microfinance to Macro Change Integrating Health Education and Microfinance to Empower Women and Reduce Poverty Copyright 2006 United Nations Population Fund This document is a joint publication of the United Nations Population Fund and the Microcredit Summit Campaign. United Nations Population Fund 220 East 42nd Street 18th Floor New York NY 10017 Microcredit Summit Campaign 440 1st Street NW Suite 460 Washington DC 20001 Publication Design Tackett-Barbaria Design Group Photography Karl Grobl for Freedom from Hunger 2005 Kashf Foundation Publication Team Written by April Allen Watson Microfinance Specialist and Christopher Dunford President Freedom from Hunger United Nations Population Fund Aminata Toure Senior Technical Adviser Kaori Ishikawa Programme Specialist Microcredit Summit Campaign Sam Daley-Harris Director Anna Awimbo Research Director The entire team wishes to thank the following consultants for their contribution to this document Dr. Ernestine A. Addy Nelson Agyemang Robinah Babiyre Armando Boquin Dr. Mimosa Cortez-Ocampo Beatriz Espinoza Angelyn Litao Dr. Basant Maharjan Dr. Bernard Owumi Dr. . Rao Subba .