This article reports on the quality of care delivered by private and public providers of primary
health care services in rural and urban India. To measure quality, the study used …

The disease burden in low-income countries is extremely high. Malaria, respiratory
infections, diarrhea, AIDS, and other diseases are estimated to kill more than 15 million …

This book offers a view of the lives of the world's poorest people, helping to explain why the
poor tend to borrow in order to save, why they miss out on free life-saving immunizations but …

This paper documents the quality of medical advice in low-income countries. Our evidence
on health care quality in low-income countries is drawn primarily from studies in four …

Objective To evaluate the service readiness of health facilities in Bangladesh, Haiti, Kenya,
Malawi, Namibia, Nepal, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania …

Objectives. We fielded a population-based discrete choice experiment (DCE) in rural
western Tanzania, where only one third of women deliver children in a health facility, to …

In an effort to reduce maternal mortality, developing countries have been investing in village-
level primary care facilities to bring skilled delivery services closer to women. We explored …

This paper describes the results of a policy experiment conducted in coordination with the
Nigerian government. In this experiment, some communities were randomly selected to …

Background Recent years have seen an unprecedented increase in funds for procurement
of health commodities in developing countries. A major challenge now is the efficient …

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are by far the major cause of death in lower-middle,
upper-middle, and high-income countries; by 2015, they will also be the leading cause of …