The post-communist transition to social health insurance in many of the Central and Eastern European and Central Asian … social health insurance and tax-financed health systems. This paper employs a regression-based generalization of the … find that, controlling for any concurrent provider payment reforms, adoption of social health insurance increased national …

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 …

and health services. Drawing on multiple rounds of SUSENAS household surveys, they document a reversal in the rate of … 1990s. Carrying out traditional static benefit-incidence analysis of public spending in education and health, the authors … find patterns consistent with experience in other countries: spending on primary education and primary health care tends to …

health outcomes and health service use. In any effort to address these questions, analysts must confront the issue of how to … analysis of health inequalities and the incidence of public spending. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the potential … sensitivity of the analysis of health-related inequalities to how socioeconomic status is measured. Using data from Mozambique …

This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes, in a … this period, allowing the authors to assess the permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. The analysis controls …

authors examine the impact of adult mortality in Tanzania on three measures of health among children under five: morbidity …--can do to mitigate the impact of adult mortality. These programs disproportionately improve health outcomes among the poorest …The AIDS epidemic is dramatically increasing mortality of adults in many Sub-Saharan African countries, with …

feeding programs as estimated in RCTs. Under-powered meta-analyses are common in health research, and this methodological …