Smithson, Paul | 2006
- Author(s): Smithson, Paul
- Publisher: Women's dignity project
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health care delivery, poverty, tanzania
The report discusses the scale and nature of health inequalities and inequity in Tanzania. As such, it intends to raise awareness and understanding of the issues, and to stimulate policy debate and remedial action.
Son, Hyun H. | 2009
- Author(s): Son, Hyun H.
- Publisher: Asian development bank (ADB)
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health care delivery, poverty, philippines
Equity related to health and health care may be viewed from three broad perspectives: equity in health, equity in health service delivery, and equity in health financing. The first two constitute the focus of this study. In this context, it is important to discuss operational definitions.
Sosa-Rubi, Sandra G. and Galلrraga, Omar and Lَpez-Ridaura, Ruy | 2009
- Author(s): Sosa-Rubi, Sandra G. and Galلrraga, Omar and Lَpez-Ridaura, Ruy
- Publisher: World health organization (WHO)
- Pages: 512--519
- Keywords: health economics, health insurance, public health, mexico
This study analyses the effect of enrolment in the public health insurance scheme known as Seguro Popular [People’s Insurance] on access to health resources, treatment and blood glucose control among poor adults with diabetes in Mexico.
Sparrow, Robert | 2008
- Author(s): Sparrow, Robert
- Publisher: Oxford university press [etc.]
- Pages: 1--12
- Keywords: health economics, health insurance, health programmes, poverty, indonesia
This paper looks at targeting performance of the Indonesian health card programme that was implemented in August 1998 to protect access to health care for the poor during the Indonesian economic crisis.
Srivastava, Neeraj M. and Awasthi, Shally and Agarwal, Girdhar G. | 2009
- Author(s): Srivastava, Neeraj M. and Awasthi, Shally and Agarwal, Girdhar G.
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health care delivery, maternal and child health, india
This study assessed: 1) distribution of neonatal illnesses and different health providers sought; 2) distribution of out-of-pocket expenditures; 3) socio-economic distribution of neonatal illnesses, care-seeking behavior and out-of-pocket expenditures in urban Lucknow, northern India.