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Health and Poverty

The Millennium development goals will not be attained without new research addressing health system constraints to delivering effective interventions : report

| 2005
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO)]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services research, poverty, development strategies
This WHO report notes that health system constraints constitute major barriers to achieving the MDGs, there are many unanswered questions about how to strengthen health systems and scale-up effective interventions and more resources are needed build capacity within less-developed countries.

Health systems : putting pieces together

| 2005
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser family foundation
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health programmes, health services, health policy, poverty
Transcription of 'The last mile : turning rhetoric into reality', on the The Global Health Council's Health Systems conference Juni 1, 2005. Programs that have turned rhetoric into reality through partnering and sound management share their successes, providing a \"how to\" manual for replication.

Addressing Africa's health workforce crisis

| 2004
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health personnel, poverty alleviation, africa
In this report the need for an urgent action to scale up Human Resources for Health to reduce poverty is explained. There is simply insufficient human capacity in many developing countries to absorb, apply and make efficient use the interventions being offered by many new health initiatives.

Poverty and health in developing countries : key actions

| 2003
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: Organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health policy, poverty
This policy brief discusses approaches for improving access to healthcare and protecting the poor from the catastrophic cost of ill health.

Improving and extending sexual and reproductive health services of PROFAMIL (The PROFAMIL project)

| 2003
  • Author(s):
  • Publisher: International planned parenthoood federation (IPPF)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, reproductive health, poverty, haiti
The project aim is to increase availability of quality sexual and reproductive health services and information in Haiti’s poorest communities.
 

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).