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Health and Poverty

No cash, no care : how \"user fees\" endanger health : an MSF briefing paper on financial barriers to healthcare

| 2008
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Médecins sans frontières (MSF)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health economics, public health
This document brings together lessons learnt about how financial barriers affect patients’ access to public health care in low-income countries. It documents how patient fees, or “user fees”, exclude a substantial proportion of those most in need from medical care and exacerbate household poverty.

Health systems 20/20 country brief : South Africa

| 2007
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Abt associates. Health systems 20/20 project
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, poverty, south africa
Health Systems Country Brief South Africa assess the health system to identify \"best buys\" for health systems strengthening, limited investments in health systems activities that are certain to realize important gains.

Health systems 20/20 country brief : Tanzania

| 2007
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Abt associates. Health systems 20/20 project
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, poverty, tanzania
Health Systems Country Brief Tanzania assess the health system to identify \"best buys\" for health systems strengthening, limited investments in health systems activities that are certain to realize important gains.

Social health protection : an ILO strategy towards universal access to health care : a consultation

| 2007
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: International labour office (ILO). Social security department
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health economics, health policy
This paper aims to set forth some basic notions about the ILO strategy on \"Rationalization of the use of pluralistic financing mechanisms\". It is based on the most recent information on social health protection coverage.

The impact of tariff and non-tariff barriers on access to essential drugs for the poorest people

| 2007
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Global health council
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: medical care, essential drugs, poverty
This policy brief describes tariffs and non-tariff barriers and the relationship between these trade-related barriers and access to essential drugs. It explores current efforts to reduce these barriers and proposes policy and advocacy recommendations.
 

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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).