Health and Poverty

Better health for poor children : a special report

Bryce, Jennifer | 2002]
  • Author(s): Bryce, Jennifer
  • Publisher: World health organization] (WHO) [etc.
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, child health, poverty
This document describes the need to address the issue of relations between poverty and child health, and discusses the use of already available effective and affordable interventions, and the influence of socio-cultural context on children's nutrition, health and development.

Policy brief : hoe pro-poor is the South African health system?

Burger, Ronelle | [2007]
  • Author(s): Burger, Ronelle
  • Publisher: Stellenbosch university
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health economics, public health, south africa
This chapter investigates how effective recent changes in the South African public health care system have been in transforming the inequitable system inherited from the apartheid-era government.

Have pro-poor health policies improved the targeting of spending and the effective delivery of health care in South Africa?

Burger, Ronelle and Grobler, Christelle | 2007
  • Author(s): Burger, Ronelle and Grobler, Christelle
  • Publisher: University of Cape Town (UCT).] Development policy research unit (DPRU)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health economics, public health, south africa
This paper examines how recent changes in the public health care system in South Africa have affected the incidence of spending and the accessibility and quality of health care.

Accountable priority setting for trust in health systems : the need for research into a new approach for strengthening sustainable health action in developing countries

Byskov, Jens | 2009
  • Author(s): Byskov, Jens
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, poverty, kenya, tanzania, zambia
This article is about AFR, Accountability for Reasonableness, an explicit ethical framework for legitimate and fair priority setting that provides guidance for decision-makers who must identify and consider the full range of relevant values for health systems.

Designing financial-incentive programmes for return of medical service in underserved areas : seven management functions

Bنrnighausen, Till and Bloom, David E. | 2009
  • Author(s): Bنrnighausen, Till and Bloom, David E.
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health personnel, health programmes
This review draws on studies of financial-incentive programmes and other initiatives with similar objectives to discuss seven management functions that are essential for the long-term success of these programmes: financing, promotion, selection, placement, support, enforcement, and evaluation.
 

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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).