Zere, Eyob | 2007
- Author(s): Zere, Eyob
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health care delivery, poverty, malawi
The findings in this article indicate that in most of the selected indicators there are pro-rich inequities and that they have been widening. Also publicly provided services benefit the non-poor more than the poor.
Zere, Eyob | 2007
- Author(s): Zere, Eyob
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health economics, health policy, poverty, namibia
This article discusses how an improved mechanism for health care resource allocation in the public health sector in Namibia might result from the development of an equitable funding formula.
Zhang, Tuohong | 2007
- Author(s): Zhang, Tuohong
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health care delivery, health services, disease control, tuberculosis, china
Access to appropriate, affordable tuberculosis (TB) services is still problematic in some rural areas of China. This study takes a household perspective to investigate receipt of appropriate care and affordability of services for different socio-economic groups with TB symptoms in rural China.
Zhang, Xiulan and Miège, Pierre and Zhang, Yurong | 2011
- Author(s): Zhang, Xiulan and Miège, Pierre and Zhang, Yurong
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health care delivery, health policy, health services, aids, rural areas, anhui, henan, china
This study is based on a large-scale household survey and in-depth interviews of key informants that was conducted in villages in three counties of two provinces in China. It assesses the new decentralized service provision system for people living with HIV/AIDS in rural populations in China.
Zhou, Zhongliang | 2011
- Author(s): Zhou, Zhongliang
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health care delivery, health services research, china
This paper focuses on income-related inequity of inpatient utilization and its determinants in Chinese rural areas. The study finds that even with the same need for inpatient services, richer individuals utilize more inpatient services than poorer individuals.