Background Resources
Background resources relevant to MeTA are held in the Source international information support centre.
Visit the Source website to find these resources arranged in key lists on specific topics and to subscribe to an RSS feed, which will alert you when new resources become available.
Source is designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability for development. It is a unique collection of around 25,000 health resources, including books, journals, manuals, reports, posters, CD-ROMs, websites and organisations.
Below is are the latest resources, related to MeTA, to be added to Source.
10 health questions about the Caucasus and Central Asia
This book highlights the essentials of health and health systems in eight countries in the region. It then compares thes...
PMI : President's malaria initiative
This website highlights work in combating malaria in 15 of the worst affected countries in Africa. Some information on m...
The Lancet : essential medicines out of reach of most people
The lead article of this edition of the WHO and HAI medicines pricing survey quarterly bulletin picks up on an articl...
UN MDG gap task force report
Making essential medicines more affordable and more widely available are essential in helping to meet the millennium...
Guidelines on policies that affect medicine prices
At a time when over 50 medicines pricing surveys had been completed around the world using the HAI/WHO methodology, t...
Focus on pricing policies : EMRO ministers confront high prices
The focus of this edition of HAI and WHO's bulletin for medicines prices surveys is a meeting of the regional committ...
Competition and corruption : what can the donor commuity do?
This Brief discusses how corruption might threaten the benefits of competition in a market. Corruption can result in...
Money in politics : transparency in action
Fostering disclosure of political finance information regarding public as well as private funds is key to address mon...
Corruption and health
Corruption and health is one of the thematic issues that Transparency International (TI) focuses on. This section of...
Poverty and corruption
"Across different country contexts, corruption has been a cause and consequence of poverty. Yet donors and government...
