Health and Poverty

Community involvement in health care financing : a survey of the literature on the impacts, strengths, and weaknesses

Jakab, Melitta and Krishnan, Chitra | 2001
  • Author(s): Jakab, Melitta and Krishnan, Chitra
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health policy, health economics, poverty
The paper reviews 45 published and unpublished reports on community financing completed between 1990 and 2001. The study concluded that the reviewed literature is rich in describing scheme design and implementation. But evidence on the performance of community financing schemes is limited.

Improving health services and strengthening health systems : adopting and implementing innovative strategies : an exploratory review in twelve countries

Janovsky, Katja and Peters, David and Arur, Aneesa and Sundaram, Sandhya | cop. 2006
  • Author(s): Janovsky, Katja and Peters, David and Arur, Aneesa and Sundaram, Sandhya
  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health services, cambodia, ethiopia, ghana, indonesia, kenya, mali, mozambique, myanmar, papua new guinea, tanzania, uganda, vietnam
In recent years a number of specific strategies for improving health services and strengthening health systems have been consistently advocated. In order to advise governments, WHO commissioned this exploratory study to examine the track record of these strategies in twelve low income countries.

Household perceptions and their implications for enrolment in the national health insurance scheme in Ghana

Jehu-Appiah, Caroline | 2011
  • Author(s): Jehu-Appiah, Caroline
  • Publisher: Oxford university press [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health economics, health insurance, ghana
This paper identifies and compares perceptions of insured and uninsured households in Ghana on health care providers, health insurance schemes and community attributes and explores the association of these perceptions with household decisions to voluntarily enrol and remain in insurance schemes.

Health and poverty

Jeugmans, Jacques | 2001
  • Author(s): Jeugmans, Jacques
  • Publisher: Asian development bank (ADB)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health, poverty, indonesia, vietnam, mongolia
Powerpoint presentation on the Asia and Pacific Forum on Poverty : reforming policies and institutions for poverty reduction. About developing a pro-poor health strategy and a pro-poor health system.

Health system strengthening using primary health care approach : Panel C: Health financing and poverty alleviation : Topic: Equitable health financing

Jongudomsuk, Pongpisut and Srithamrongsawat, Samrit | 2008
  • Author(s): Jongudomsuk, Pongpisut and Srithamrongsawat, Samrit
  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO). Office of the south east Asia region (SEARO)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health services, health economics, poverty alleviation, thailand
This paper is aimed to update development of the Universal Healthcare Coverage(UC) Scheme in Thailand and success of the scheme especially in equity improvement both in terms of access to healthcare and financial protection.
 

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