Health and Poverty

Health research web : civil society organisations

| 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Council on health research for development (COHRED)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health information, health services research, civil society
Health Research Web offers Civil Society Organisations a platform for managing and sharing research related information. Furthermore they can create networks with other stakeholders and discuss research issues with them.

Health systems 20/20 : bringing clarity to health systems

| 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Abt associates
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, poverty, developing countries
Website of Health Systems 20/20, working to strengthen health systems in developing countries. They use an integrated approach to address the financing, governance, operational, and capacity constraints in a health system that impede access to life-saving priority health services.

Poverty & health

| 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, poverty
Part of the worldbank website about the Reaching the Poor Program (RPP) witch is an effort to begin finding better ways of ensuring that the benefits of health, nutrition, and population (HNP) programs flow to disadvantaged population groups.

Management sciences for health (MSH)

| 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Management sciences for health (MSH)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health policy, management development, health services, poverty
The mission of MSH is to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. They help managers and leaders in developing countries to create stronger management systems that improve health services.

Community based health insurance (CBHI) in Rwanda

| 2009-
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Ministry of health
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health insurance, health care delivery, poverty, rwanda
The website of Community Based Health Insurance shows the ability to reconcile the objective of improving financial accessibility to health care and equity in the health system, and the need to mobilize domestic resources for improving the financial viability of health services.
 

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).