Health and Poverty

Improving health service delivery in developing countries : from evidence to action

Peters, David H. | cop. 2009
  • Author(s): Peters, David H.
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: public health, health care delivery, health services, development projects, evaluation, afghanistan, ethiopia, ghana, rwanda, uganda, vietnam, zambia
This book collects and synthesizes what is known about implementation of health strategies in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and thereby fills an important void in our knowledge about how to improve health services in LMICs.

Better health systems for India's poor : findings, analysis, and options

Peters, David H. | 2002
  • Author(s): Peters, David H.
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health services, public sector, private sector, poverty, health policy, health economics, india
This report focuses on health sector reform and outlines some broad measures for reform in this sector. It evaluates policy options, presents the theory and evidence to support these policy choices, and offers specific proposals to improve health policy and strengthen implementation across India.

The Chilean rural practitioner programme : a multidimensional strategy to attract and retain doctors in rural areas

Peٌa, Sebastian | 2010
  • Author(s): Peٌa, Sebastian
  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO)
  • Pages: 371--378
  • Keywords: health personnel, health policy, health programmes, chile
This paper explores the Rural Practitioner Programme in Chile. The objectives of the study are to describe this programme for rural doctors (médicos generales de zona), to characterize its multidimensional set of incentives and to carry out a preliminary evaluation of programme outcomes.

Interventions to reduce emigration of health care professionals from low- and middle-income countries (review)

Peٌaloza, Blanca | 2011
  • Author(s): Peٌaloza, Blanca
  • Publisher: Wiley
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health personnel, developing countries
This Cochrane review focuses on policies that aim to reduce the permanent emigration of health professionals from low- or middle-income countries (LMICs) and the undesirable effects of such emigration on the health system in LMICs.

Local level responses to budget allocation under the Universal health care coverage policy in Thailand

Pitayarangsarit, S. | 2008
  • Author(s): Pitayarangsarit, S.
  • Publisher: Consortium for research on equitable health systems (CREHS)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health economics, health insurance, thailand
This report discusses a study on the Universal Health Care Coverage (UC) policy in Thailand which established a national health insurance scheme to which all Thai citizens are entitled to.
 

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