Health and Poverty

Results for development institute : innovative ideas, catalytic action

| cop. 2009-
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  • Publisher: Results for development institute
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  • Keywords: development policy, health policy, health economics
The Results for Development Institute (R4D) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating social and economic progress in low and middle income countries. Working areas include economics and finance, health policy, education, management, and governance.

Health systems action network

| cop. 2009-
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  • Publisher: Health systems action network (HSAN)
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  • Keywords: health services, health policy
The Health Systems Action Network is a global network of professionals committed to strengthening health systems through effective involvement of diverse stakeholders, spreading of actionable knowledge and better management of resources that is guided by evidence.

International health partnership and related initiatives (IHP+)

| cop. 2009-
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  • Publisher: International health partnership and related initiatives (IHP+)
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  • Keywords: health policy, health economics, health planning, poverty
Website of IHP+ and related initiatives seeks to achieve better health results by mobilizing donor countries and other development partners around a single country-led national health strategy, guided by the principles of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action.

HLSP institute

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  • Publisher: HLSP institute
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  • Keywords: health programmes, health policy, public health, aids, health services, poverty alleviation
The HLSP Institute aims to inform debate and policy on global health issues and national health systems, in order to reduce inequalities in health. The Institute assesses new and emerging issues in international health and development practice.

What countries can do now : twenty-nine actions to scale-up and improve the health workforce

| cop. 2009
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  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO). Global health workforce alliance
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  • Keywords: health personnel, health economics, health policy
This document explains seven financing and economic issues that matter for health workforce scale-up and financing. It then states twenty-nine actions that policy-makers could take right away to address the issues, independent of any long-term HRH interventions in progress.
 

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).