Health and Poverty

Wrong schools or wrong students? : the potential role of medical education in regional imbalances of the health workforce in the United Republic of Tanzania

Leon, Beatus K. and Riise Kolstad, Julie | 2010
  • Author(s): Leon, Beatus K. and Riise Kolstad, Julie
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health personnel, health policy, tanzania
This paper reviews available research evidence that links medical students' characteristics with human resource imbalances and the contribution of medical schools in perpetuating an inequitable distribution of the health workforce.

Outpatient care utilization in urban Kerala, India

Levesque, Jean-Frédéric | 2006
  • Author(s): Levesque, Jean-Frédéric
  • Publisher:
  • Pages: 289--301
  • Keywords: health care delivery, primary health care, poverty, india
This study analyses the determinants of utilization of outpatient health care services in urban Kerala and their implications with regard to access to care.

Innovations in insuring the poor : health insurance for the rural poor : evidence from Cambodia

Levine, David I. | 2009
  • Author(s): Levine, David I.
  • Publisher: International food policy research institute (IFPRI)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health insurance, health policy, poverty, cambodia
This brief in the IFPRI 'Innovations in Insuring the Poor' series describes the results of an evaluation of SKY Health Insurance (an acronym for the Khmer name Sokhapheap Krousar Yeung, or “Health for Our Families”) in rural Cambodia.

Supporting the delivery of cost-effective interventions in primary health-care systems in low-income and middle-income countries : an overview of systematic reviews

Lewin, Simon | 2008
  • Author(s): Lewin, Simon
  • Publisher: The Lancet
  • Pages: 928--939
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health services, poverty
This overview summarises the evidence from systematic reviews of health systems arrangements and implementation strategies, with a particular focus on evidence relevant to primary health care in low-income and middle-income countries.

Effect of health insurance on delivery care utilization and perceived delays and barriers among southern Thai women

Liabsuetrakul, Tippawan and Oumudee, Nurlisa | 2011
  • Author(s): Liabsuetrakul, Tippawan and Oumudee, Nurlisa
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, maternal health services, health insurance, thailand
This study aimed to assess the effect of health insurance and other factors on delivery care utilization and the perception of delays and barriers to delivery care among women living in Songkhla province, Thailand.
 

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