Health and Poverty

The role of social health protection in reducing poverty : the case of Africa

Waelkens, Maria-Pia and Soors, Werner and Criel, Bart | cop. 2005
  • Author(s): Waelkens, Maria-Pia and Soors, Werner and Criel, Bart
  • Publisher: International labour office (ILO). Extension of social security (ESS)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health care delivery, poverty alleviation, africa, africa south of sahara
This literature review aims to increase our knowledge of the potential that social health protection has in reducing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

Influence of externally funded programs on human resource for health in health service delivery : a case study of two districts in Kenya

Wafula, Charles O. | 2008
  • Author(s): Wafula, Charles O.
  • Publisher: Wemos foundation
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, health care delivery, health programmes, poverty, health personnel, kenya
This report shows the findings of the study with the objective: \"To analyse in what way human resources for health recruitment, deployment and retention at the district level are influenced by externally funded programmes\".

Benefit incidence analysis : are government health expenditures more pro-rich than we think?

Wagstaff, Adam | 2010
  • Author(s): Wagstaff, Adam
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health economics, health care delivery, health policy
This paper examines the implications of a central assumption of benefit incidence analysis, namely that the unit cost of a government-provided service bears no relation to the out-of-pocket payments paid by the patient.

Health insurance for the poor : initial impacts of Vietnam’s health care fund for the poor

Wagstaff, Adam | 2007
  • Author(s): Wagstaff, Adam
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health insurance, national health insurance, households, poverty, estimation theory, vietnam
This paper discusses the impact of Vietnam's Health Care Fund for the Poor (HCFP), which uses government revenues to finance health care for the poor. Estimates of the program’s impact suggest that HCFP has increased service utilization and has reduced the risk of catastrophic spending.

Are health shocks different? : evidence from a multi-shock survey in Laos

Wagstaff, Adam and Lindelow, Magnus | 2010
  • Author(s): Wagstaff, Adam and Lindelow, Magnus
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, disasters, households, laos
The first aim of this paper is to add to the literature by comparing a broad range of different types of shocks in terms of their incidence, distribution between the poor and better off, costs, coping responses, and the degree to which households are able to smooth consumption following shocks.
 

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