Health and Poverty

Addressing poverty in TB control : options for national TB control programmes

| cop. 2005
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World health organization. Stop TB department
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: disease control, tuberculosis, poverty, health programmes
This document addresses the integration of pro-poor measures in tuberculosis (TB) control programmes and offers guidance for national TB control programmes on the practical issues involved and options for action.

Why reproductive health supplies are crucial to poverty reduction

| ca. 2006]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Population action international (PAI)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: primary health care, poverty alleviation, health economics
This paper is about increasing access to contraceptives and condoms to serve people’s basic right to reproductive health is a cost-effective approach with far-reaching dividends. Budgeted funding is almost entirely missing, despite evident shortfalls in anticipated donor funding.

Dying for change : poor people’s experience of health and ill-health

| ca. 2002]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, poverty
Report with valuable lessons: 1. poor people view and value their health in a holistic sense. 2. people link disease and health to poverty (instability, worry, shame, sickness, humiliation and powerlessness). 3. good health is valued because it is crucial to economic survival.

Improving health in developing world

| 2010]
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Global health TV
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health policy
In this video by Global Health TV experts explain how direct community involvement can lead to improvements in health-care delivery, efficiency of public spending, access to pharmaceuticals and quality of health care.

Gapminder : unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view

| 2010-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Gapminder foundation
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health information, health statistics
Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The web-service Gapminder World offers possibilities to display time series of development statistics for all countries using WHO data for health statistics.
 

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).