Possible explanations for the slow implementation of household-targeted activities include: low community demand for nutrition interventions given the relative invisibility of the problem, a scarcity of nutrition capacity at lower administrative levels, and the lack of an institutional home for nutrition within the local health sector.
After the implementation of NHI, total household out-of-pocket medical expenditures dropped from NT$23,046 in 1994 to NT$17,726 in 1996 23.088%) (Table 3).
An independent economic evaluation of the trial (led by LSHTM) will estimate the cost-effectiveness of our intervention and will provide further insight into the costs of implementation, household costs from increased health service use, and health system costs associated with increased care seeking.
The analysis concludes that in the current mode of implementation, household economic aid does not relieve children's poverty, and does not contribute to children's social inclusion.
After three months of intensive implementation, PCI staff recorded 77% of household respondents reporting regular SODIS-use, and 88% at the end of the study.
At least during the implementation of the Ecological resettlement, household splitting was a popular solution among the nomads, enabling them to get a new house without relinquishing their pastureland and livestock.
Prior to the implementation of Seguro Popular, vulnerable households commonly encountered out-of-pocket and catastrophic health expenditures attributed to outpatient care and medication, constraining them to reduce expenses in food, shelter, or education (Galárraga et al. 2010).
The quality of implementation of these practices by households based on registered observations undertaken by CHWs showed that 59% were well adopted, 16% poorly adopted and 19% not applicable.
