Health and Poverty

Health-care reform in Georgia : a civil-society perspective : country case study

Hauschild, Tobias and Berkhout, Esmé | 2009
  • Author(s): Hauschild, Tobias and Berkhout, Esmé
  • Publisher: Oxfam international
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, poverty, georgia
This research reveals following challenges facing health-care reform in Georgia (country in former Soviet Union): 1. How to ensure universal access to services within the private health insurance context. 2. How to ensure quality of care. 3. How to ensure meaningful civil-society participation.

Incentives for retaining and motivating health workers in Pacific and Asian countries

Henderson, Lyn N. and Tulloch, Jim | 2008
  • Author(s): Henderson, Lyn N. and Tulloch, Jim
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health personnel, health policy, health services, asia and the pacific
This paper was initiated by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) after identifying the need for an in-depth synthesis and analysis of available literature and information on incentives for retaining health workers in the Asia-Pacific region.

Health system performance at the district level in Indonesia after decentralization

Heywood, Peter and Choi, Yoonjoung | 2010
  • Author(s): Heywood, Peter and Choi, Yoonjoung
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health policy, health economics, health care delivery, indonesia
This paper assesses the extent to which the performance of the health system at the district level has improved in Indonesia since the country implemented a radical decentralization and significantly increased the central transfer of funds to district governments in 2001.

The effects of mandatory health insurance on equity in access to outpatient care in Indonesia

Hidayat, Budi | 2004
  • Author(s): Hidayat, Budi
  • Publisher:
  • Pages: 322--335
  • Keywords: health insurance, health services, use studies, regression analysis, indonesia
This paper examines the effects of mandatory health insurance on access and equity in access to public and private outpatient care in Indonesia.

Risky remedies for the health of the poor : global public-private initiatives in health

Higgins, Colleen | 2005
  • Author(s): Higgins, Colleen
  • Publisher: Stichting Wemos
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health policy, health programmes, medical care, poverty, india, kenya, tanzania, zambia, south africa
Report on the implementation of four Global Public-Private Initatives (GPPIs) in five African countries and three Indian states. The GPPIs fit into the categories according to the type of approach they use: improving access to health products, global coordination mechanisms and public advocacy.
 

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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).