Health and Poverty

Tanzania : in their own words : poor women and health services

Mwanamke, Utu | 2004
  • Author(s): Mwanamke, Utu
  • Publisher: Women's dignity project
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health services, health policy, poverty, tanzania
This document highlights critical constraints that poor women experience in accessing health services, including the challenges they face and the strategies they use to overcome them.

Maintaining quality of health services after abolition of user fees : a Uganda case study

Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet | 2008
  • Author(s): Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, health care delivery, health economics, uganda
This study examined how different aspects of quality of care changed, after the government in Uganda changed its health financing options from user charges to free services.

Initial community perspectives on the Health service extension programme in Welkait, Ethiopia

Negusse, Haile and McAuliffe, Eilish and MacLachlan, Malcolm | 2007
  • Author(s): Negusse, Haile and McAuliffe, Eilish and MacLachlan, Malcolm
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health personnel, health services, ethiopia
This study seeks to explore the experience of the Health Service Extension Programme (HSEP) from the perspective of the community who received the service. This programme is an innovative approach to addressing the shortfall in health human resources in Ethiopia.

The financial protection effect of Ghana national health insurance scheme : evidence from a study in two rural districts

Nguyen, Ha T.H. and Rajkotia, Yogesh and Wang, Hong | 2011
  • Author(s): Nguyen, Ha T.H. and Rajkotia, Yogesh and Wang, Hong
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, national health insurance, rural areas, bangladesh
The current study uses the case of Ghana to contribute to the evidence pool about insurance's financial protection effects. It evaluates the impact of the country's National Health Insurance Scheme on households' out-of-pocket spending and catastrophic health expenditure.

The effect of a poverty reduction policy and service quality standards on commune-level primary health care utilization in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam

Nguyen, Phuong | 2009
  • Author(s): Nguyen, Phuong
  • Publisher: Oxford university press [etc.]
  • Pages: 262--271
  • Keywords: health services, health care delivery, health programmes, poverty alleviation, vietnam
This article explores the impact of a Government of Vietnam programme providing free services at commune level, as well as commune socio-economic characteristics and achievement of quality standards, on utilization rates of public primary health care.
 

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