Achieving the objective of China's current health system reform, namely equitable improvements in health outcomes, will … shows that since 2000, disparity in selected health outcomes has been declining across provinces, largely due to earmarked … central government allocations. By contrast, public expenditure on health is increasingly regressive (positively correlated …

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 …

Survey. It finds that the presence of a midwife in a community in utero leads to an improvement in overall health, cognition …

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 …

This survey of the state of research on relations between health and economic development discusses first research on … how development affects health and then research on how health affects development. Central assumptions include: (A …) Health is produced by households, along with a number of other valued goods, as a function of the resources the household has …

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 study examines the effect of performance incentives for health care providers to provide more and higher quality … care in Rwanda on child health outcomes. The authors find that the incentives had a large and significant effect on the …

This paper presents direct evidence on the quality of health care in low-income settings using a unique and original …