Flores, Walter | 2006
- Author(s): Flores, Walter
- Publisher: International society for equity in health (ISEqH)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health care delivery, health services, poverty, latin america, caribbean region
The purpose of this report is to document the experiences and lessons learned in health sector reforms (HSR) initiated during the years of 1995 to 2005 and their effects on equity in the access and delivery of services.
Foreit, Karen and Karra, Mahesh and Pandit-Rajani, Tanvi | 2010
- Author(s): Foreit, Karen and Karra, Mahesh and Pandit-Rajani, Tanvi
- Publisher: Futures group
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health services, health policy, rural areas, urban areas
Current poverty-equity analyses typically consider a country as a whole. In most developing countries poverty is highly correlated with place of residence. The development of separate urban and rural wealth indices provides a way out of this dilemma.
Frost, Laura J. and Reich, Michael R. | cop. 2008
- Author(s): Frost, Laura J. and Reich, Michael R.
- Publisher: Harvard center for population and development studies
- Pages: --
- Keywords: medicine, pharmaceuticals, schistosomiasis, vaccines, hepatitis, antimalarials, contraceptives, medical care, health care delivery
Many people in developing countries lack access to health technologies, even basic ones. Why do these problems in access persist and what can be done to improve access to good health technologies, especially for poor people in poor countries? This book answers those questions.
Gaag, Jacques van der | 2007
- Author(s): Gaag, Jacques van der
- Publisher: International food policy research institute (IFPRI)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health care delivery, health economics, health insurance, poverty
This brief focuses on options for increasing access to affordable health care. The discussion draws on some long-standing regularities in health economics and new developments in the design and implementation of low-cost health insurance for low-income people in developing countries.
Gao, Jun | 2002
- Author(s): Gao, Jun
- Publisher:
- Pages: 20--29
- Keywords: health policy, health care delivery, health economics, china
This paper examines the impact of economic transition and health sector reform on health equities in the urban and rural populations of China in the 1990s.