Health and Poverty

Human resources for health

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  • Publisher: BioMed central
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  • Keywords: health personnel, human resources, personnel management, poverty
This open access, peer reviewed online journal covers all aspects of planning, producing and managing the health workforce. It aims to disseminate research on health workforce policy, the health labour market, health workforce practice, development of knowledge tools and implementation mechanisms.

Human resources for health

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  • Publisher: Royal tropical institute (KIT)
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  • Keywords: health personnel, human resources, personnel management
This dossier provides background information about Human Resources for Health (HRH) and it describes the involvement of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in this field.

Human development network

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  • Publisher: World bank
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  • Keywords: development strategies, health policy, poverty alleviation
The mission of the World Bank's Human Development Network is to assist low and middle income country governments individually and collectively increase the inclusive and efficient investment in people, with a view of driving faster and more equitable growth.

The Harvard global equity initiative (HGEI)

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  • Publisher: Harvard global equity initiative (HGEI)
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  • Keywords: health policy
The Harvard Global Equity Initiative (HGEI) is an interfaculty research program at Harvard University devoted to promoting more equitable development with a particular focus on the dimension of health.

Health equity and financial protection in Asia (HEFPA)

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  • Publisher: Erasmus universiteit Rotterdam
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  • Keywords: health care delivery, poverty, asia
HEFPA is a EU sponsored project involving 12 research teams from Asia and Europe. The project is motivated by the related problems of limited and unequal access to health care and households’ exposure to financial risks associated with illness in low and lower-middle income Asian countries.
 

About this portal

This portal contains information on health (system) policies and practices to improve equity in the health sector and contribute to poverty reduction in low- and middle-income countries. The portal is part of a wider programme, Information for Health Action (I4HA).