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Health and Poverty

In Mexico, a plan to beat poverty with health care and education : report

Suarez, Ray | 2009
  • Author(s): Suarez, Ray
  • Publisher: PBS newshour
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health programmes, poverty, mexico
A short documentary about the Mexican conditional cash program 'Opportunidades'.

Evaluating the financial protection of patients with chronic disease by health insurance in rural China

Sun, Qiang | 2009
  • Author(s): Sun, Qiang
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health insurance, poverty, china
This paper investigates the extent to which patients suffering from chronic disease in rural China face catastrophic expenditure on healthcare, and how far the New Co-operative Medical Insurance Scheme (NCMS) offers them financial protection against this.

A review of population, reproductive health, and adolescent health & development in poverty reduction strategies

Sundaram, Sandhya | 2004
  • Author(s): Sundaram, Sandhya
  • Publisher: World bank. Health, nutrition and population central unit. Population and reproductive health cluster
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health policy, poverty alleviation
This review examines how poverty reduction strategies are addressing population, reproductive health, and adolescent health and development issues. Twenty-one Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) were analysed and interviews were conducted with staff at the World Bank.

The Paris Declaration in practice : challenges of health sector aid coordination at the district level in Zambia

Sundewall, Jesper | 2009
  • Author(s): Sundewall, Jesper
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health policy, programme budgeting, health programmes, zambia

Exploring evidence-policy linkages in health research plans : a case study from six countries

Syed, Shamsuzzoha B. | 2008
  • Author(s): Syed, Shamsuzzoha B.
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services research, health policy, poverty, bangladesh, india, china, afghanistan, uganda, nigeria
Article about a cross-country research with three activities: strengthening evidence-policy linkages in health system research, features that potentially strenghten the research-policy interface and the utility of the approach for setting research priorities in health policy.
 

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This portal contains information on health (system) policies and practices to improve equity in the health sector and contribute to poverty reduction in low- and middle-income countries. The portal is part of a wider programme, Information for Health Action (I4HA).