Health and Poverty

Scaling up for better health in Cambodia

Lane, Christopher | cop. 2007
  • Author(s): Lane, Christopher
  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health economics, poverty, cambodia
This report analyses the barriers to scaling up health service provision in Cambodia with a view to attaining the health millennium development goals. It focuses on financial and administrative impediments, but also considers the extent to human resources and the institutional framework.

Pro-poor health policies in poverty reduction strategies

Laterveer, Leontien and Niessen, Louis W. and Yazbeck, Abdo S. | 2003
  • Author(s): Laterveer, Leontien and Niessen, Louis W. and Yazbeck, Abdo S.
  • Publisher:
  • Pages: 138--145
  • Keywords: health policy, poverty alleviation, health economics, development policy
This study assesses the extent to which the first batch of interim PRSPs actually addresses the health of the poor and vulnerable. A literature study was used to design and test a semi-quantitative approach to assess the pro-poor focus of health policies in national documents.

Determinants of health seeking behaviour in Uganda : is it just income and user fees that are important?

Lawson, David | 2004
  • Author(s): Lawson, David
  • Publisher: University of Manchester
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, households, income, poverty, gender, uganda
This paper uses Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) data to investigate the main determinants associated with seeking private, government and pharmacy based health care, for both adults and children.

Malawi essential health services campaign, for all campaign : country case study

Lawson, Max | 2008
  • Author(s): Lawson, Max
  • Publisher: Oxfam international
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, essential drugs, health personnel, poverty, malawi
This report has revealed that there are three key challenges for essential health services in Malawi. The challenges are: (1) access to essential medicines; (2) access to health services, compounded by user fees, especially in CHAM hospitals; and (3) the human-resource crisis.

The impact of social assistance programs on reducing inequities in health care among vulnerable groups in the Republic of Macedonia : (a small scale descriptive study)

Lazarevik, Vladimir and Risteska, Marija and Simonovska, Valentina | 2009
  • Author(s): Lazarevik, Vladimir and Risteska, Marija and Simonovska, Valentina
  • Publisher: Institute of immunobiology and human genetics (IIBHG)]
  • Pages: 73--78
  • Keywords: health care delivery, public health, macedonia
This research looks at the impact of social assistance programs on reducing social inequities in health care among the vulnerable groups in Macedonia.
 

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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).