Health and Poverty

Implementing community based health insurance in Anambra State, Nigeria

Uzochukwu, B.S.C. | 2010
  • Author(s): Uzochukwu, B.S.C.
  • Publisher: Consortium for research on equitable health systems (CREHS)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, national health insurance, nigeria
This policy brief identifies the actors that influenced the development, implementation and ultimate failure of the scheme and provides recommendations for policy-makers responsible for designing and implementing health insurance policies.

Community based health insurance scheme in Anambra State, Nigeria : an analysis of policy development, implementation and equity effects

Uzochukwu, B.S.C. | 2009
  • Author(s): Uzochukwu, B.S.C.
  • Publisher: Consortium for research on equitable health systems (CREHS)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health insurance, health policy, nigeria
This study explores the Community-Based Health Insurance policy development and implementation process and the factors that have constrained or enhanced its implementations.

Socio-economic differences and health seeking behaviour for the diagnosis and treatment of malaria : a case study of four local government areas operating the Bamako initiative programme in south-east Nigeria

Uzochukwu, Benjamin S.C. and Onwujekwe, Obinna E. | 2004
  • Author(s): Uzochukwu, Benjamin S.C. and Onwujekwe, Obinna E.
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, disease control, malaria, health economics, poverty, nigeria
This study investigates if fees introduced under the Bamako Initiative system affect healthcare seeking among different socio-economic groups in Nigeria for diagnosis and treatment of malaria.

Do health sector-wide approaches achieve results? : emerging evidence and lessons from six countries : Bangladesh, Ghana, Kyrgyz Republic, Malawi, Nepal, Tanzania

Vaillancourt, Denise | 2009
  • Author(s): Vaillancourt, Denise
  • Publisher: World bank. Independent evaluation group (IEG)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health policy, health services, bangladesh, ghana, kyrgyzstan, malawi, nepal, tanzania
This technical paper distills the emerging experience and lessons of Sector-wide Approaches (SWAps) in the health sector, supported by the World Bank and other development partners (DPs), in six countries: Bangladesh, Ghana, Kyrgyz Republic, Nepal, Malawi and Tanzania.

Public health infrastructure and equity in the utilization of outpatient health care services in Peru

Valdivia, Martيn | 2002
  • Author(s): Valdivia, Martيn
  • Publisher:
  • Pages: 12--19
  • Keywords: health care delivery, health services, peru
This article analyzes the magnitude and nature of socioeconomic differences in the utilization of outpatient health care services in Peru. In particular, it explores the potential equity-enhancing effect of the expansion and improvements in the network of health centres during the 1990s.
 

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