Wim Van Lerberghe

Biographic Data

ID1736749
NAMEWim Van Lerberghe
GIVEN NAMESWim
FAMILY NAMEVan Lerberghe
SIGNATUREVAN LERBERGHE W
AFFILIATIONSInstituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
ORCID0000-0001-9966-6563
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX3

  • The contribution of primary care to health and health systems in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessMargaret E Kruk, Denis Porignon et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2010

  • The response to flexibility

    Open AccessL Goeman, B Galichet et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2010Cited by: 2References: 12

    Since December 2005 the GAVI Alliance (GAVI) Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) window has offered predictable funding to developing countries, based on a combined population and economic formula. This is intended to assist them to address system constraints to improved immunization coverage and health care delivery, needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals. The application process invites countries to prioritize specific system constraint…

  • Going to scale with professional skilled care

    Open AccessMarge Koblinsky, Zoë Matthews et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2006

  • The Bwamanda hospital insurance scheme

    Open AccessBart Criel, Patrick Van Der Stuyft et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1999Cited by: 11References: 19

  • Reform follows failure

    Open AccessWim Van LerbergheARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning1997

    This paper describes how, against a background of growing financial crisis, pressure for reform is building up in the Lebanese health care system. It describes the various agendas and influences that played a role. The Ministry of Health, backed by some international organizations, has started taking the lead in a reform that addresses both the way care is delivered and the way it is financed. The paper describes the interventions made to prepare…

  • Reform follows failure

    Open AccessWim Van LerbergheARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning1997

    This first of two papers on the health sector in Lebanon describes how unregulated development of private care quickly led to a crisis situation. Following the civil war the health care sector in Lebanon is characterized by (i) ambulatory care provided by private practitioners working as individual entrepreneurs, and, to a small extent, by NGO health centres; and (ii) by a fast increase in hi-tech private hospitals. The latter is fuelled by unreg…

  • Obstetrical interventions and health centre coverage

    Open AccessWim Van Lerberghe, KA Pangu et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning1988Cited by: 3

    In this paper a spatial analysis of routine utilization data is used as a cheap and sensitive contribution to the overall evaluation of the health care delivery system. Routine data on major surgical interventions for complicated labour in a rural area in Eastern Zaire are analysed. Distance decay of intervention rates is marked for the rural population, but less so for areas covered by the health centre network. A coefficient of localization is …

  • Comprehensive can be effective

    Open AccessWim Van Lerberghe, KA PanguARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1988Cited by: 3References: 4

  • Weight, height and arm circumference in 0 to 5 year‐old children from Kasongo (Zaire)

    The Kasongo Project Team The Kasongo Project Team, The Kasongo Project Team et…ARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition1982

    Means and centile distributions of weight‐for‐age, height‐for‐age, weight‐for‐height and arm circumference‐for‐age amongst under‐fives of both sexes in Kasongo, Zaire, are presented. More than 32,000 measurements of each of the three parameters were obtained in a semi‐longitudinal study. These data are compared with reference values and data from other African Countries. Key words: Nutritional surveyweightheightarm circumferenceunder‐fives Notes …