This paper summarizes empirical findings from recent World Bank financed analysis on the use of health services by the poor in India (Mahal et al 2000) and some additional analysis conducted with the same data. Three factors motivate the choice of approach taken here and in the background paper....

Decision makers and the public are in need of information to guide their decisions about how to strengthen health services. This book pulls together available evidence concerning strategies to improve health services delivery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), using current methods to...

"Markets for health-related goods and services have spread rapidly in many low and middle-income countries. This has substantially increased the availability of health-related goods and services, but it has created problems with safety, efficacy and cost. Making Health Markets Work addresses the...

1. Introduction / Gerald Bloom. [et al.] -- 2. Transition in the Indian healthcare market / Barun Kanjilal and Sumit Mazumdar -- 3. Lessons from an intervention programme to make informal health care providers effective in a rural area of Bangladesh / Mohammad Iqbal. [et al.] -- 4. Drug...