Background In developing countries, the private sector provides a substantial proportion of
primary health care to low income groups for communicable and non-communicable …

Despite the high coverage of directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS), tuberculosis
(TB) continues to affect 10.4 million people each year, and kills 1.8 million. High TB mortality …

Abstract Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are increasingly popular in the social
sciences, not only in medicine. We argue that the lay public, and sometimes researchers, put …

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 …

Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in
the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together …

Afghanistan remains in the bottom 10 percent globally in electricity consumption per capita
(~ 100 kWh per year) and only 25-30 percent of its population is connected to the grid, one …

Background Existing studies of the quality of tuberculosis care have relied on recall-based
patient surveys, questionnaire surveys of knowledge, and prescription or medical record …

We present unique audit-study evidence on health care quality in rural India, and find that
most private providers lacked medical qualifications, but completed more checklist items …

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize hospital service quality (SQ) into its component
dimensions from the perspectives of patients and their attendants; and to analyze the …

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 …