People in poor countries tend to have less access to health services than those in better‐off
countries, and within countries, the poor have less access to health services. This article …

Both under-and over-treatment of communicable diseases are public bads. But efforts to
decrease one run the risk of increasing the other. Using rich experimental data on …

Introduction There is a limited understanding of the importance of respectful maternity care
on utilisation of maternal and newborn health services. This study aimed to determine how …

In order to deal with the fiscal crises of public health care systems, many low and middle
income countries are considering introducing or expanding mandated social health …

Social Policy in East and South East Asia provides the first systematic comparison of the
policy sectors of income maintenance, health, housing and education in Hong Kong, South …

Much has been published on the assessment of health systems, particularly on the provision
of health services (1–9). Delivery of health interventions to individuals in need is a critical …

Although studies have previously been done in Kenya on health care demand, it has
hitherto not been clear how health seeking behavior due to illness is affected by information …

Governments are constantly faced with competing demands for public funds, thereby
necessitating careful use of scarce resources. In Egypt, the School Health Insurance …

India started on a program of reforms, both in its external and internal aspects, sometime in
the mid-eighties and going on into the nineties. While the increased exposure to world …

OBJECTIVE: To gauge the effects of operating the Bamako Initiative in Kongoussi district,
Burkina Faso. METHODS: Qualitative and quasi-experimental quantitative methodologies …