Health and Poverty

Task sharing in Zambia : HIV service scale-up compounds the human resource crisis

Walsh, Aisling | 2010
  • Author(s): Walsh, Aisling
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health personnel, health services, aids, urban areas, rural areas, zambia
This analysis of workforce patterns across 30 facilities in three districts of Zambia illustrates that the remarkable achievements in scaling-up HIV/AIDS service delivery has been on the back of sustained non-HIV workload levels, increasing HIV workload and stagnant health worker numbers.

‘Doing’ health policy analysis : methodological and conceptual reflections and challenges

Walt, Gill | 2008
  • Author(s): Walt, Gill
  • Publisher: Oxford university press [etc.]
  • Pages: --317
  • Keywords: health policy, health services research, poverty, health information
Part of the worldbank website about the Reaching the Poor Program (RPP) witch is an effort to begin finding better ways of ensuring that the benefits of health, nutrition, and population (HNP) programs flow to disadvantaged population groups.

Why is access to basic services not inclusive? : a synthesis with a special focus on developing Asia

Wan, Guanghua and Francisco, Ruth | 2009
  • Author(s): Wan, Guanghua and Francisco, Ruth
  • Publisher: Asian development bank (ADB)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, health care delivery, asia
This paper synthesizes factors that could contribute to the failure of basic service delivery to the poor. It also highlights successful projects and good practices from developing Asian countries which may help promote inclusiveness in providing basic social services in developing countries.

Community-based health insurance in poor rural China : the distribution of net benefits

Wang, Hong | 2005
  • Author(s): Wang, Hong
  • Publisher:
  • Pages: 366--374
  • Keywords: health economics, health insurance, rural population, farmers, health services, household surveys, guizhou, china
This study assesses the impact of China's community-based insurance (CBI) scheme on the equity of CBI enrolment, health service utilization and the net benefit distribution among enrolees and the overall population in the community that established CBI.

Towards equitable access to medicines for the rural poor : analyses of insurance claims reveal rural pharmacy initiative triggers price competition in Kyrgyzstan

Waning, Brenda | 2009
  • Author(s): Waning, Brenda
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: medical care, pharmaceuticals, health programmes, kyrgyzstan
The objective of this study was to determine if the establishment of a rural pharmacy initiative, designed to increase access to medicines in rural Kyrgyzstan, resulted in the unforeseen benefit of triggering medicine price competition in pre-existing private pharmacies located in the region.
 

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