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Health and Poverty

Scaling up health policies and services in low- and middle-income settings

Hanson, Kara | 2010
  • Author(s): Hanson, Kara
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health policy, health services research
Introduction to collection of papers that address three of the priority health areas identified in the MDGs: antiretroviral therapy for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, reproductive health services (cervical cancer screening), and malaria treatment.

Is private health care the answer to the health problems of the world's poor?

Hanson, Kara | 2008
  • Author(s): Hanson, Kara
  • Publisher: Public library of science medicine]
  • Pages: 1528--1532
  • Keywords: health care delivery
This debate examines whether the private sector should step up its involvement in the health systems of low-income countries.

The impact of different benefit packages of medical financial assistance scheme on health service utilization of poor population in rural China

Hao, Yanhua | 2010
  • Author(s): Hao, Yanhua
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, health services research, health care delivery, poverty, rural areas, china
This article aimes to compare differences in health services utilization of poor families between two benefit package project areas in rural China and to find out major influencing factors on their services utilization.

Access to health care for all? : user fees plus a Health equity fund in Sotnikum, Cambodia

Hardeman, Wim | 2004
  • Author(s): Hardeman, Wim
  • Publisher:
  • Pages: 22--32
  • Keywords: health services, health economics, use studies, health services research, health insurance, poverty, cambodia
This paper presents the experience of a Health Equity Fund, managed by a local non-governmental organization. It describes the results of the first two years of operations, investigates the constraints to equitable access to the district hospital and the effects of the Health Equity Fund.

Challenges to maternal health care utilization among ethnic minority women in a resource-poor region of Sichuan province, China

Harris, Amanda | 2010
  • Author(s): Harris, Amanda
  • Publisher: Oxford university press [etc.]
  • Pages: 311--318
  • Keywords: maternal health services, health care delivery, rural areas, minorities, health policy, social aspects, cultural aspects, china
This article is about factors that affect women obtaining care. Utilization of maternal health care services is associated with social, economic, cultural factors as well as the policies of delivery of services. Utilization is not necessarily increased through easy access to a health facility.
 

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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).