Gupta, Neeru | cop. 2010
- Author(s): Gupta, Neeru
- Publisher: World health organization (WHO)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health personnel, health services, ethiopia, brazil, mexico
The present research was initiated in order to promote statistical discourse on measuring inequalities in national health labour markets and the implications for policy and planning. Case-studies from Ethiopia, Brazil and Mexico are presented in this report.
Gustafsson-Wright, Emily and Janssens, Wendy and Gaag, Jacques van der | 2009
- Author(s): Gustafsson-Wright, Emily and Janssens, Wendy and Gaag, Jacques van der
- Publisher: University of Oxford. Department of economics. Centre for the study of African economies (CSAE)]
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health economics, health insurance, namibia
This paper examines the relationship between health expenditures/shocks and access to health insurance for the purpose of initiating a policy discussion about the potential impacts of a unique subsidized low-cost private health insurance program in Namibia.
Gwatkin, Davidson R. | [2009]
- Author(s): Gwatkin, Davidson R.
- Publisher: World bank
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health economics, health programmes, health services, poverty
There’s an important difference between offering a service enhancement that’s relevant for the poor, and one that actually reaches and benefits the poor. Relevance is a necessary condition for the poor to benefit. The beneficiaries of a service enhancement are those whom the enhancement reaches.
Gwatkin, Davidson R. and Bhuiya, Abbas and Victora, Cesar G. | 2004
- Author(s): Gwatkin, Davidson R. and Bhuiya, Abbas and Victora, Cesar G.
- Publisher: The Lancet
- Pages: 1273--1280
- Keywords: health care delivery, health services, poverty
Article with the conclusion that health systems are consistently inequitable, providing more and higher quality services to the well-off than the poor who are unable to obtain them. The availability of good medical care tends are vary inversely with the need for it in the population served.
Gwatkin, Davidson R. and Wagstaff, Adam and Yazbeck, Abdo S. | cop. 2005
- Author(s): Gwatkin, Davidson R. and Wagstaff, Adam and Yazbeck, Abdo S.
- Publisher: World bank
- Pages: --
- Keywords: poverty, health care delivery, health programmes, reproductive health, maternal health services, primary health care, nutrition programmes, use studies, health services, ghana, zambia, kenya, south africa, bangladesh, cambodia, gujarat, uttar pradesh, india, nepal, argentina, brazil, peru
This book contains 11 case studies which present the results of evaluation research commissioned by the Reaching the Poor Program (RPP) in an effort to fill gaps in knowledge about what types of program reach the poor most effectively.