This paper investigates the extent to which the health systems of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina …, Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo) have succeeded in providing financial protection against adverse health events. The authors … examine disparities in health status, healthcare utilization, and out-of-pocket payments for healthcare (including informal …

The literature contains few impact evaluations of health sector reforms, especially those involving broad and …-funded health sector reform project in China known as Health VIII. On the supply-side, the project combined infrastructure … health centers and county hospitals, and interventions aimed at improving the effectiveness and quality of care, including …

health care problems. It first identifies four key problems in the health care systems in developing countries: 1) public … facilities, which provide the bulk of secondary and tertiary health care services in most countries, offer services of poor … adequate access to health care; 3) the composition of health services offered and consumed is sub-optimal; and 4) coordination …

performers in terms of health outcomes in Latin America, with one of the highest infant mortality rates, and one of the lowest … diarrhea, pneumonia, cholera, malnutrition, and tuberculosis. A significant share of Guatemalans lack access to health care … services. A combination of both supply- and demand-side constraints limit the ability of households to seek health care …

Health systems are not just about improving health: good ones also ensure that people are protected from the financial … consequences of receiving medical care. Anecdotal evidence suggests health systems often perform badly in this respect, apparently … to measure financial protection in health. Both relate a household's out-of-pocket spending to a threshold defined in …

This paper exploits the staggered rollout of Thailand s universal health coverage scheme to estimate its impacts on … on health (about four times larger) than the Village Fund scheme, which provided free credit to rural households through …

This paper looks at differential progress on the health Millennium Development Goals between the poor and better …-off within countries. The findings are based on original analysis of 235 Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator … Cluster Surveys, spanning 64 developing countries over the period 1990-2011. Five health status indicators and seven …

What can other developing countries learn from Sri Lanka on achieving good health at low cost? While its well …-organized medical and maternal-child health services have been documented elsewhere, this paper fills a gap in documenting how it … effectiveness of these services are (1) strong focal points in the central Health Ministry for supporting preventive services; (2 …

This paper explores the major challenges to the sustainability of health sector financing in the countries of the … healthcare expenditure and the most significant barriers to revenue generation, identifying some key health reforms that … countries in the sub-region could consider in order to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of their health systems. Data …

specifically on the role of two areas of public policy, namely health system reforms and the one child policy. The empirical … associated with improved nutritional status in the preferred model. Data are drawn from four waves of the China Health and …