Past research on the health workforce can be structured into three perspectives - "health workforce planning" (1960 … through 1970s); "the health worker as economic actor" (1980s through 1990s); and "the health worker as necessary resource …" (1990s through 2000s). During the first phase, shortages of health workers in developed countries triggered the development …

health of a program providing monthly coupons for free water treatment solution (diluted chlorine) to households with young … children. The program is more effective and much more cost-effective than asking Community Health Workers (CHWs) to distribute …

The demand for health care and healthcare professionals is predicted to grow significantly over the next decade …. Securing an adequate health care workforce is of primary importance to ensure the health and wellbeing of the population in an … healthcare professionals and are also controversial. At issue is a balance between protecting the public health and removing …

of treatment on total medical expenditures, health behaviors, employee productivity, or self-reported health status in …

How responsive to health shocks are healthcare systems in the developing world? Developing countries are known to have … both lower levels of hospital infrastructure and serious health shocks driven by air pollution. These shocks are transitory … and may be marginal relative to other health demands, so healthcare systems might be able to manage them. On the other …

Public health interventions often involve a trade-off between improving health and protecting individual rights. We … for sex. The first part of our analysis shows that the CDAs led to substantial public health improvements. However … treatment relative to men who purchased sex. These findings emphasize that the success of a public health intervention depends …

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers …

-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in …

birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from … favorably to policies that target maternal health, and could have a small, lasting effect on long-run outcomes …