Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing … health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To … modes. Overall, it can be concluded that the health care reforms have not reduced equity in health care financing neither if …

This paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh. We use self-reported injury or … illness due to work as a general measure of health status. Using the Bangladesh National Child Labour Survey data for 2002 … subjective health across age groups, we find that health disadvantages for different age groups are not essentially parallel. …

effect of both health and education capital on economic growth and poverty at the district level in Indonesia. Second … the analysis and probed the effects of health capital as well. As far as we are aware, no study has done a direct and … comprehensive examination of the impacts of health on growth and poverty at the subnational level. Thus, this study is the first at …

-scores). Using the experience of the Kashmir insurgency, I find that stress during pregnancy and the limited access to health … link between children's health at birth, mother's health during pregnancy, and children's height in the context of negative … differences are small. Finally, a robust finding in the health literature is that shorter children perform worse in schools, in …

The issue of whether faith-inspired providers are able to reach the poor depends in part on the cost of the health … assess to what extent the cost of healthcare is a major reason for not being satisfied with health services and whether …

predict a range of health-related behaviors and outcomes. What can be said about patient satisfaction with faith … satisfaction of patients with FII-health services in Africa today. Second, we present new evidence from household surveys in six …

health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … implementation of national health policies, or more favorable geography. The paper uses micro level data for children under five to …’Ivoire, and Togo. A Cox proportional hazards model is used to test which of the three ‘contenders’ – health policy, wealth, or …

The Christian Health Association of Ghana is the largest federation of faith-inspired provider of health services in … data from the Ministry of Health. Using poverty mapping techniques and simple regression analysis, this paper aims to …