Health and Poverty

Expanding health insurance coverage in vulnerable groups : a systematic review of options

Meng, Qingyue | 2010
  • Author(s): Meng, Qingyue
  • Publisher: Oxford university press [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health insurance
Vulnerable groups are often not covered by health insurance schemes. This review summarizes the options for expanding health insurance coverage in vulnerable groups, describes which countries have tried these strategies, and identifies and describes evaluation studies.

Mobility of primary health care workers in China

Meng, Qingyue | 2009
  • Author(s): Meng, Qingyue
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health personnel, health policy, china
This paper aims to analyse the mobility of health workers in township and community health centres in China.

Hospital charge exemptions for the poor in Shandong, China

Meng, Qingyue and Sun, Qiang and Hearst, Norman | 2002
  • Author(s): Meng, Qingyue and Sun, Qiang and Hearst, Norman
  • Publisher:
  • Pages: 56--63
  • Keywords: health economics, primary health care, health policy, poverty, china
This study investigated nine public hospitals in Shandong Province, China, that offer discount or exemption mechanisms for the poor.

Increasing access to family planning among the poor in Peru : building on and strengthening financing mechanisms for the poor

Menotti, Elaine and Sharma, Suneeta and Subiria, Gracia | 2008
  • Author(s): Menotti, Elaine and Sharma, Suneeta and Subiria, Gracia
  • Publisher: Constella futures
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health policy, peru
This report discusses barriers that affect poor women’s access to and use of family planning (FP) services and interventions designed to address barriers related to existing financing mechanisms to respond to the FP/reproductive health needs of poor women in the region of Junin.

The impact of vouchers on the use and quality of health goods and services in developing countries : a systematic review

Meyer, Carinne | [2011]
  • Author(s): Meyer, Carinne
  • Publisher: Venture strategies for health and development
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health policy, health programmes, health services
This policy brief presents the results of a systematic review of 24 quantitative evaluations of 16 health voucher programmes in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
 

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