Health and Poverty

Health insurance of rural/township schoolchildren in Pinggu, Beijing : coverage rate, determinants, disparities, and sustainability

Zhu, Jane M. and Zhu, Yiliang and Liu, Rui | 2008
  • Author(s): Zhu, Jane M. and Zhu, Yiliang and Liu, Rui
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health insurance, china
This paper reports findings from a study that examined schoolchildren's insurance coverage, disparities between farmer and non-farmer households, and effects of low-premium cooperative schemes on healthcare access and utilization, in Pinggu, a rural/suburban district in Bejing.

Financing for HIV, AIDS, TB and malaria in Uganda : an equity analysis

Zikusooka, Charlotte M. and Tumwine, Mark and Tutembe, Patrick | 2009
  • Author(s): Zikusooka, Charlotte M. and Tumwine, Mark and Tutembe, Patrick
  • Publisher: Regional network for equity in health in east and southern Africa (EQUINET)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health programmes, disease control, aids, tuberculosis, malaria, uganda
This report explores and presents the current patterns of AIDS, TB and Malaria (ATM) financing within the health sector, and investigates the extent to which global health initiatives financing for ATM has influenced heath care financing reforms.

Engaging the poor on family planning as a poverty reduction strategy

Zosa-Feranil, Imelda and Green, Cynthia P. and Cucuzza, Laurette | 2009
  • Author(s): Zosa-Feranil, Imelda and Green, Cynthia P. and Cucuzza, Laurette
  • Publisher: Futures group
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: poverty alleviation, health policy, family planning
A key theme in this report is that policies and programs that combine poverty-reduction and family planning initiatives, as well as engage the poor, can increase the effects of poverty reduction programs.

A technical framework for costing health workforce retention schemes in remote and rural areas

Zum, Pascal | 2011
  • Author(s): Zum, Pascal
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health personnel, health policy
This paper proposes a framework for carrying out a costing analysis of interventions to increase the availability of health workers in rural and remote areas with the aim to help policy decision makers.

Imbalance in the health workforce

Zurn, Pascal | 2004
  • Author(s): Zurn, Pascal
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health personnel, health policy, poverty
This paper aims to contribute not only to a better understanding of the issues related to imbalance, but also to the development of an analytical framework that emphasizes the factors affecting health workforce imbalances, and facilitates the development of policy tools and their assessment.
 

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